Bulosan: On American Democracy draws inspiration from selected excerpts from two important literary works written by the Filipino-American labor activist and writer, Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956), who was based in California and Washington State in the 1930s and 40s. In both his semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart (1946), and the essay, “Freedom from Want” (1943), the author wrote on themes about the preservation of American democracy at a time when it was under threat by the rise of Fascism in Western Europe, Authoritarian Communism in the Soviet Union, and rampant racism at home.