It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy.
It is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it is a juxtaposition of political satire and chilling realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from the welfare state, crime, and the liberal press.
The book was called a message to thinking Americans.
This 1935 book is as fresh and contemporary as today's headlines.
