Penguin Classic’s Back Cover Blurb for Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 Novel It Can’t Happen Here

in Books, Current Affairs | July 19th, 2018 5 Comments

Cam­er­ap­er­son Steve Yedlin sur­faced this on Twit­ter: “Pen­guin Classic’s back-cov­er blurb for Sin­clair Lewis’s 1935 nov­el It Can’t Hap­pen Here.” I’ll let this pic­ture, speak for itself…

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