Your article about the “great replacement theory” says Madison Grant’s pseudoscientific, racist book The Passing of the Great Race is “referenced” in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (A deadly ideology: how the ‘great replacement theory’ went mainstream, 8 June).
In fact, Fitzgerald’s book satirises the white supremacist ideas that Grant espoused through the corrupt millionaire narcissist Tom Buchanan’s praise of the work of “Goddard”, a thin disguise for Lothrop Stoddard, whose The Rising Tide of Color covers the same ground as Grant.
