By Joe Conason
While fascism involves the USA, will probably be wrapped within the flag, wearing a cross.---Sinclair Lewis, writer of It cannot take place the following, 1935 For the 1st time because the Nixon period, american citizens have cause to doubt the future---or even the presence---of democracy. we are living in a society the place govt conspires with colossal company and massive evangelism; the place ideologues and spiritual zealots assault common sense and the clinical technique; and the place the ruling occasion encourages xenophobic nationalism according to irrational, synthetic worry. The celebration in energy turns out to hunt a perpetual kingdom of warfare to carry directly to strength, and they're prepared to lie, cheat, and scouse borrow to accomplish their ends. The query has to be requested: Are we headed towards the tip of yank democracy? Nobel Prize--winning writer Sinclair Lewis depicted authoritarianism American-style in his sardonically titled dystopian novel It cannot ensue right here, released in 1935. Now, bestselling political journalist Joe Conason argues that it could actually take place here--and a pick out workforce of super robust right-wing ideologues are riding us ever in the direction of the precipice. during this compelling, impassioned, but rational and fact-based examine the kingdom of the state, Conason exhibits how and why the United States has been wrenched clear of its founding rules and is being dragged towards authoritarianism. Praise for the books of Joe Conason: "A entire, well-researched indictment of a number of nasty those that particularly deserve it."---Molly Ivins on vast Lies "When Joe casts his eye at the cadres of definitely the right, they always emerge battered, with their arguments filleted, their assets of cash uncovered, and their actual causes laid bare." --Michael Tomasky, former editor, the yank Prospect, at the uncooked Deal "A hundred years from now the first resource at the so-called Clinton scandals will nonetheless be The searching of the President through Joe Conason and Gene Lyons."---James Carville at the searching of the President
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To Sinclair Lewis, who sardonically titled his 1935 dystopian novel It Can’t Happen Here, “it” plainly meant an American version of the totalitarian dictatorships that had seized power in Germany and Italy. Married at the time to the pioneering reporter Dorothy Thompson, who had been expelled from Berlin by the Nazis a year earlier and quickly became one of America’s most outspoken critics of fascism, Lewis was acutely aware of the domestic and foreign threats to American freedom. ” Fearful of what might come in the next election, he cranked out the pages of It Can’t Happen Here in a three-month summer sprint between May and August.
It has repeatedly sought, from the beginning, to exploit the state of war for partisan advantage and presidential image management. It has wasted billions of dollars, and probably tens of billions, on Pentagon contractors with patronage connections to the Republican Party. Everyone knows, too, that the administration dissembled about the events leading up to the destruction of New Orleans. Its negligence and obliviousness in the wake of the storm were shocking, as was its attempt to conceal its errors.
For information, address St. Y. 10010. com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conason, Joe. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35605-7 ISBN-10: 0-312-35605-6 1. United States—Politics and government — 2001-2. Authoritarianism — United States. 3. Democracy — United States. 4. Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946 — Political and social views. 5. Conservatism — United States. 6. Big business — Political aspects — United States. 7. Right-wing extremists — United States.
