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A renowned legal scholar assembles a dream team of other legal authorities and cultural and political analysists to ponder the title, substance, and current relevance of It Can't Happen Here...Although most of the essayists are moderately sanguine about our survival, most see a pathway that a patient autocrat could take to delete and/or attenuate key Constitutional provisions-especially those most precious freedoms of speech and the press...Cautionary pieces well-informed by history, legal theory, and patriotism, all bubbling in a cauldron of anxiety. -- Kirkus Reviews The best of the entries rouse the reader to think carefully and deeply about the prospects for American authoritarianism. -- Publishers Weekly Several of the contributors...agree that American politics is susceptible to creeping authoritarianism and provide the intellectual underpinning. -- Washington Post What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party-and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates Can It Happen Here?...which concludes, if you read between the lines, that 'it' already has. -- New York Times Book Review

What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party-and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man rule. This fact permeates Can It Happen Here?...which concludes, if you read between the lines, that 'it' already has. -- New York Times Book Review Several of the contributors...agree that American politics is susceptible to creeping authoritarianism and provide the intellectual underpinning. -- Washington Post The best of the entries rouse the reader to think carefully and deeply about the prospects for American authoritarianism. -- Publishers Weekly A renowned legal scholar assembles a dream team of other legal authorities and cultural and political analysists to ponder the title, substance, and current relevance of It Can't Happen Here...Although most of the essayists are moderately sanguine about our survival, most see a pathway that a patient autocrat could take to delete and/or attenuate key Constitutional provisions-especially those most precious freedoms of speech and the press...Cautionary pieces well-informed by history, legal theory, and patriotism, all bubbling in a cauldron of anxiety. -- Kirkus Reviews

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Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy and a columnist for Bloomberg View. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers The World According to Star Wars and Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler). He lives in Concord, Massachusetts. Contributors include Bruce Ackerman, Jack M. Balkin, Tyler Cowen, Jon Elster, Noah Feldman, Tom Ginsburg, Jack Goldsmith, Jonathan Haidt, Stephen Holmes, Aziz Huq, Timur Kuran, Martha Minow, Eric A. Posner, Samantha Power, Karen Stenner, Geoffrey R. Stone, David A. Strauss, Cass R. Sunstein, and Duncan J. Watts Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University. His blog, Marginal Revolution, is one of the world's most influential economics blogs. He also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times, and the Economist. He is the cofounder of Marginal Revolution University and the author of several books. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia. Kaleo Griffith is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and classically trained actor. He graduated cum laude from Franklin Pierce University with a BA in theater, holds an MFA in acting from Rutgers University, and is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has appeared in such television series as Law & Order and Reggie's Family & Friends, among others.

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