It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

 

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It Can't Happen Here (2005 Signet Classics Paperback Edition)

by Sinclair Lewis, Introduction by Michael Meyer

 

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BuzzFlash Recommendation (Excerpt)

 

Oh, yes, it can happen here -- as we noted in a recent BuzzFlash

Editorial, " The Republican Party Loyalty Oath, Courtesy of Kim Jong Il

of North Korea. "

 

This 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis, like George Orwell's " 1984, "

indicates, once again, that novels from the past may be the best

predictors of the future -- and, as they say in French, " on est

arrivé " : we have arrived.

 

Buy " It Can't Happen Here " before the book burning starts. It sounds

like Karl Rove's playbook.

 

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Other Reviews

 

" As dated as it is (1935), its themes will be quite familiar to

Americans today. It starts with the highly contested election of an

oafish yet strangely charismatic president, who talks like a

'reformer' but is really in the pocket of big business, who claims to

be a home-spun 'humanist,' while appealing to religious extremists,

and who speaks of 'liberating' women and minorities, as he gradually

strips them of all their rights. One character, when describing him,

says, 'I can't tell if he's a crook or a religious fanatic.' "

-- Amazon.com Reviewer

 

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