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Book Review: ""It Can't Happen Here"" Page 6
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6- Lewis shows the exact sort of people every small town has them - who would find in Fascism the outlet they have always wanted for hatred & envy. This reminds me of a comment recently made by Harlan Miller telling of his feelings when traveling across the country with this book in mind. As he looked at the peaceful countryside he thought - "no, it can't happen here", Then confessing that when he wandered thru the confused streets of such cities as Chicago, New York, and Pittsburg, and heard the fears and uncertainties of the strong and the weak, he wondered whether this nightmare of tyranny and dictatorship was such a fictitious fable after all. One catastrophe after another comes to not only Jessup and class to which he belongs but to the whold country as Windrip after a while is drivin into exile and his treacherous Secretary Lew Sarason and his sham patroits sieze the government. Withing a month he is assassinated by Col. Dewey Haik, Sec. of War who declared himself Pres. What had been taken for granted as the liberties of a free country are thoroughly lost sight of. The press is muzzled - people go about afraid to open their mouths for fear of spies.
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6- Lewis shows the exact sort of people every small town has them - who would find in Fascism the outlet they have always wanted for hatred & envy. This reminds me of a comment recently made by Harlan Miller telling of his feelings when traveling across the country with this book in mind. As he looked at the peaceful countryside he thought - "no, it can't happen here", Then confessing that when he wandered thru the confused streets of such cities as Chicago, New York, and Pittsburg, and heard the fears and uncertainties of the strong and the weak, he wondered whether this nightmare of tyranny and dictatorship was such a fictitious fable after all. One catastrophe after another comes to not only Jessup and class to which he belongs but to the whold country as Windrip after a while is drivin into exile and his treacherous Secretary Lew Sarason and his sham patroits sieze the government. Withing a month he is assassinated by Col. Dewey Haik, Sec. of War who declared himself Pres. What had been taken for granted as the liberties of a free country are thoroughly lost sight of. The press is muzzled - people go about afraid to open their mouths for fear of spies.
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