Why would a renowned Jewish-American writer support a Nazi sympathizer? This question triggered Dartmouth College Professor of English Barbara Will's research for her latest book, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. In this video, Will talks about the archival documents that underlie her research, and the puzzle that her book sets out to solve: Why would someone like Stein work as a self-described "propagandist" for Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of France's Nazi collaborationist Vichy government? Will's work also examines Stein's relationship to Bernard Faÿ, the first professor of American studies in France, and "how his friendship with Gertrude Stein developed and nurtured and helped to foster her own political beliefs," she says.

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