Helen Keller as political crusader? Max Wallace reveals what happened ‘After The Miracle’ in new biography

Imagine being called “the eighth wonder of the world.”At a 1901 dinner honouring Helen Keller (1880-1968), that’s precisely how Mark Twain introduced her to the crowd. And, unfortunately, during her earliest socialist period, she used a lot of stale rhetoric, which doesn’t convince in any era,” Wallace said. Keller gave an interview in which she went on the record about the appalling treatment of Black South Africans. It was like political whack-a-mole trying to maintain her image as a secular saint,” Wallace said. She issued an appeal for funds and condemned the poison of racism and oppression,” Wallace said.