Thomas Mann, The Coming Victory of Democracy.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann, 58, who had won the Nobel Prize for literature five years earlier, went into exile in Switzerland. The following year he visited America for the first time. He returned every year thereafter, until he emigrated permanently in 1938 and became one of the few German expatriates in the United States to vocally oppose Nazism and Fascism. Between February and May 1938, just before the outbreak of war, Mann gave a series of poignant and thought-provoking lectures across America, published later that year as The Coming Victory of Democracy - a vivid insistence that "we must not be afraid to attempt a reformation of freedom", and a clear call for the urgent work of continually renewing and reasserting democracy as threatening ideologies rise and fall against it.