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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An interesting alternate history dystopia in which the US turns into a fascist dictatorship in response to the Depression. ( ) This extraordinary novel from 1935 predicts with uncanny accuracy the American political situation of 2016, and has authentic and frightening warnings. Sinclair Lewis satirizes with biting humor the potential for America to fall to populist demagogues with nothing to say but what people want to hear, and of the terrible consequences of the people's naïvete. A must read. A timely book though it was written in 1935. It deals with a presidential election where the President declares martial law and takes everyone's liberties and rights away. He changes the country from states to 8 districts and appoints people loyal to him. Those who object to his authoritarian ways are jailed, put in concentration camps, or killed. Many try to flee to Canada. He, of course, ends up like all dictators, deposed, with another man like him taking over. I had a bit of a problem getting into this. Once I did, I found it interesting to see how some accepted with happened especially if they ended up in the "ruling" class. Watching others protest showed the power of the people when they stand together, though it was an underground movement. IAs news gets around about what is happening in other parts of the country, I liked how Doremus and his band of rebels get the information out by any means possible. This book shows what could happen if a fascist gets into office and what is lost and how much is lost because he says what the poor want to hear. It also shows what happens when the press is suppressed. When news gets out, it's disseminated to the masses. I found it fascinating how they did it. This is worth reading and learning from it.
“It Can’t Happen Here” is a work of dystopian fantasy, one man’s effort in the 1930s to imagine what it might look like if fascism came to America. At the time, the obvious specter was Adolf Hitler, whose rise to power in Germany provoked fears that men like the Louisiana senator Huey Long or the radio priest Charles Coughlin might accomplish a similar feat in the United States. Today, Lewis’s novel is making a comeback as an analogy for the Age of Trump. PremiosDistinciones
First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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