It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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“This book is phenomenally prescient. It should be read in tandem with Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, with Thurber’s short story, “The Greatest Man in the World” as a palate cleanser.”
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Dystopian, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
It Can_x0092_t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis_x0092_s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Dystopian, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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Daniel Pink
“This book is phenomenally prescient. It should be read in tandem with Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, with Thurber’s short story, “The Greatest Man in the World” as a palate cleanser.”
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