01.02.06
It Can’t Happen Here … Can It?
On my reading list for the new year: the recently rereleased Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here, an amazingly prescient book about a folksy politician who’s elected president during a period of unrest, then begins “temporarily” stripping away various freedoms, citing external enemies and promising that things will return to normal when the threat from abroad has passed.
And the parallels don’t end there.
The book is available via Project Gutenberg as well, but personally, I’m ordering a hard copy.
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January 3, 2006 at 3:19 pm
[...] Dang, here I am almost caught up on my reading and Acetylene goes and blogs something I must read–Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here. [...]