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To: Clemenza
Theodore Drieser's Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here."

The ebook version is online at the Project Gutenberg: It Can't Happen Here.
85 posted on 11/05/2009 6:48:29 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Thank’s for the correction, I frequently get those two confused, which is better than an ex-GF of mine who would get Evelyn Waugh and Flannery O’Connor confused.


87 posted on 11/05/2009 6:52:20 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: TomGuy
Thank you so much for that link. I have never read this book, but after a taste of it, I will be reading it tonight. I was particularly pleased to see the following, early on...

""You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-- just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns--'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps--just maybe--when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-wells, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!"

Gotta love it! The more things change...

123 posted on 11/05/2009 11:27:55 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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