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It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

©1935 Sinclair Lewis. © renewed 1963 by Michael Lewis (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Political Dystopian Science Fiction Liberalism Soviet Union Socialism Russia
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A must read for everybody in these changing times and a reminder not to take for granted your vote.

A must read for everybody in these changing times

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Not only for its current relevance but also in the reading, as well as the story in and of itself. Highly recommend.

Brilliant!

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Don’t waste your time.
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Maybe it just wasn’t my style - but I wouldn’t waste your money or time :/

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