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Episode 7 It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

from Resistance Reads · host Michael Kilman and Matt Wellstrom

Episode 7 covers Sinclair Lewis's 1935 Dystopian political novel, It Can't Happen Here. The book is about the rise of a fascist dictator in America and an allusion to the rise of Adolf Hitler, in a time when many American's didn't even know who Hitler was. In many ways, this book was a prescient warning about what was already unfolding in Europe, and, a book that echoes elements of our own time ninety years later. So, join us for a discussion of the book and the past and present American political climate.

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