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Touchstone Texts: It Can’t Happen Here

The novel’s attraction is solely its dystopian vision of a fascist America. None of its characters or situations are memorable. That is not to say that some of the characters are not interesting or diverting.

Gerald Early

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Touchstone Texts: The Continuing Importance of a Classic Work

To seek a more cautious understanding of fascism through scholarly literature, there is probably no place to start more respected than Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism, now more than a decade old.

Steven C. Hause

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