It can't happen here /
"A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new presid...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Dramatists Play Service,
[2017]
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| Summary: | "A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president's tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself -- until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis' eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 103 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780822237068 0822237067 |