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Cora Whitley writings and speeches, 1924-1927
Book Review: ""It Can't Happen Here"" Page 8
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8 Few estimates of this book (from a literary standpoint) place it in the first rank of Lewis' novels even tho it is exciting reading. It is probably true as friends say that he was not thinking of a literary work of art but genuinely trying to wake us up to the value of the possessions which are ours - free speech and a free press are still guaranteed us. The first 150 pages are written in the style in which an up to date journalist might reprot - Lewis rapidly relates events leading up to the election of Windrip. After he "gets going" it is most exciting reading. It has seemed to me his tyrannical dictatorship comes all too swiftly after the election to make it seem plausible - at least here in our U.S. i can't think that a man could lock up Congress and depose the Sup[reme Court with out their being some resistance from someone. There is the characteristic Lewis gift for exaggeration & caricature that you find in
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8 Few estimates of this book (from a literary standpoint) place it in the first rank of Lewis' novels even tho it is exciting reading. It is probably true as friends say that he was not thinking of a literary work of art but genuinely trying to wake us up to the value of the possessions which are ours - free speech and a free press are still guaranteed us. The first 150 pages are written in the style in which an up to date journalist might reprot - Lewis rapidly relates events leading up to the election of Windrip. After he "gets going" it is most exciting reading. It has seemed to me his tyrannical dictatorship comes all too swiftly after the election to make it seem plausible - at least here in our U.S. i can't think that a man could lock up Congress and depose the Sup[reme Court with out their being some resistance from someone. There is the characteristic Lewis gift for exaggeration & caricature that you find in
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