
It Can't Happen Here
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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Sinclair Lewis
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.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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While this book is semi-satirical in nature, it hits on truths that we need to wake up and see. After the book progressed past our current situation, I was saying to myself “this can’t happen here.” But now I ask myself, “can it?”
Again, this a work of satirical fiction, but it’s an important listen so we don’t follow the path of Sinclair’s totalitarian future.
It’s happening here...
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an interesting listen but needs a trigger warning
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It's Happening Here
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We thought it couldn't happen here
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prophetic!
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Huey Long was assassinated in 1935, just as It Can’t Happen Here was going to press. However, his style of dangerous populist machinations continue to haunt us. Robert Penn Warren’s charming and scary hero, Willie Stark, in All the King’s Men is also modeled on Huey Long.
One common theme in authoritarianism is a faux-populism, faking that they cared about the common man. That trend is evidenced by Long, his fictional offspring, George Wallace, and Donald Trump, who called himself a ‘blue collar billionaire’. With a 400 million dollar inheritance, he isn’t blue collar, nor is he a billionaire. Lying is part of the authoritarian package.
Minutemen at the Capitol Building
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Foreshadowing of a Fascist Future.
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The hell it can't
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