Can it happen here?

SEEKING A WAY FORWARD ... since it has happened here

Showing posts with label Sinclair Lewis. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sinclair Lewis. Show all posts

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Discourse dies if power triumphs

During the grim years of the early post 9/11 Bush presidency, when asking myself "can it happen here?" in the most frightening Sin...

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Disillusionment and resistance
ICHH, part 5

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), author Copyright 1997 State Historical Society of Wisconsin The historical setting in which Sinclair Lewis'...

Friday, April 15, 2005

Brutal Violence
ICHH, part 4

KKK marching in DC in 1925 The defining characteristic of Sinclair Lewis' fictional fascist USA is brutal violence directed against any...

Thursday, April 14, 2005

That old time religion ain't good enough anymore
ICHH, part 3

Father Coughlin first took to the airwaves in 1926, broadcasting weekly sermons over the radio. By the early 1930s the content of his broad...

Monday, April 11, 2005

Lord what fools these mortals be. . .*
ICHH, part 2

On October 27, 1936, It Can't Happen Here , by Sinclair Lewis, opened simultaneously in twenty-one theaters in seventeen states. The Los...

Sunday, April 10, 2005

It Can't Happen Here (ICHH) by Sinclair Lewis, part 1

Okay, having appropriated Lewis' title for my blog theme, I've read his novel. I found it plenty rich enough so that this will be th...

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janinsanfran: I'm a progressive political activist who runs trails and climbs mountains whenever any are available. I've had the privilege to work for justice in Central America (Nicaragua and El Salvador), in South Africa, in the fields of California with the United Farmworkers Union, and in the cities and schools of my own country. I'm a Christian of the Episcopalian flavor; we think and argue a lot. For work, I've done a bit of it all: run an old fashioned switch-board; remodeled buildings and poured concrete; edited and published periodicals, reports and books; and organized for electoral campaigns. Will work for justice.

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