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Reading IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

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Naomi K
Jun 26, 2018
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Apparently sales of Sinclair Lewis's book It Can't Happen Here have skyrocketed since the election of Donald Trump. This is a book, written in 1936, fascism's first heyday, about a homespun politician's rise to the Presidency and subsequent institution of German-style fascism in the United States.

I feel like a little bit of a hipster about Sinclair Lewi…

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