'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' _Guardian_ 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' _New Yorker_ __ __A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States
It Can't Happen Here
โ Scribed by Lewis, Sinclair
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Signet Classics
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
-- From the Trade Paperback edition.
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