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Perseus

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Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:51 AM

Dec 2018

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who resembles Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi".

It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.

People blind themselves thinking that "It Can't Happen Here!", they don't realize that it can definitely happen, and that is how it always happens because people don't believe it, even when it is happening. Its a great book, worth the read.

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You must read the book "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis Perseus Dec 2018 #18

Read the description here Perseus Dec 2018 #19

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