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Book Review: ""It Can't Happen Here"" Page 7
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7- Doremus Jessup escapes from prison thru the efforts of his daughter, Sissy and his friend Lorinda Pike who are actively engaged in the Underground Organization helping prisoners escape into Canada & secretly sending out literature of revolt against the powers. In Montreal Jessup joins Walter Trowbridge & other refugees from the U.S where they are plotting a rebellion against the dictatorship. The spirit of America is not dead & when things are at their worst a revolt ensues leg by Gen. Coon who takes command at Fort Snelling, Minn. They win the battle of Mankato while the Regulars from Ft. Leavenworth are planning to march on Omaha and Kansas City. Doremus is sent out to Minnesota to word as messenger of his liberals under fictitious name a spyposing as salesman for a Des Moines Implement Co. As the book closes we find him trying to get across the line into Canada again - P. 458. As you read these last lins so absorbed have you become in the book so real do the terrors seem that have befallen people just like ourselves that you find yourself fervently hoping that Jessup will escape before the Minute Men get him
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7- Doremus Jessup escapes from prison thru the efforts of his daughter, Sissy and his friend Lorinda Pike who are actively engaged in the Underground Organization helping prisoners escape into Canada & secretly sending out literature of revolt against the powers. In Montreal Jessup joins Walter Trowbridge & other refugees from the U.S where they are plotting a rebellion against the dictatorship. The spirit of America is not dead & when things are at their worst a revolt ensues leg by Gen. Coon who takes command at Fort Snelling, Minn. They win the battle of Mankato while the Regulars from Ft. Leavenworth are planning to march on Omaha and Kansas City. Doremus is sent out to Minnesota to word as messenger of his liberals under fictitious name a spyposing as salesman for a Des Moines Implement Co. As the book closes we find him trying to get across the line into Canada again - P. 458. As you read these last lins so absorbed have you become in the book so real do the terrors seem that have befallen people just like ourselves that you find yourself fervently hoping that Jessup will escape before the Minute Men get him
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