Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America Audiobook (Free)

“Why is Trump immune is certainly that he is not a leader within the context of a healthy Republican government. He is a cult leader of the movement that has bought out a politics party – and he specifically campaigned on the system of one-man rule. This truth permeates “DID IT Happen Here? . which concludes, if you read between the lines, that “it” already provides.” – NY Times Publication Review

‘Several of the contributors…concur that American politics is vunerable to creeping authoritarianism about DID IT Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America and offer the intellectual underpinning.’ – Washington Post

With the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both the left and right feared that America’s 240-year-old grand test in democracy was coming to an end, and that Sinclair Lewis’ satirical book, It Can’t Happen Right here, written through the dark times of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. May be the democratic independence that the United States symbolizes actually secure? Can authoritarianism happen in the us?

Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard Professor, and New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein queried many of the nation’s leading thinkers. With this thought-provoking assortment of essays, these distinguished thinkers and theorists explore the lessons of background, how democracies crumble, how propaganda works, and the role of the mass media, courts, elections, and ‘fake news’ in the present day politics landscape-and what the future of america may hold.

Contributors include:

Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Laws SchoolEric Posner, law professor in the University of Chicago Rules SchoolTyler Cowen, economics teacher in George Mason UniversityTimur Kuran, economics and political science professor in Duke UniversityNoah Feldman, professor of law at Harvard Law SchoolJonathan Haidt, public psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at NY University’s Stern College of BusinessJack Goldsmith, Teacher at Harvard Law School, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Organization, and co-founder of LawfareStephen Holmes, Teacher of Law at New York UniversityJon Elster, Professor of the Public Sciences at Columbia UniversityThomas Ginsburg, Professor of International Rules and Teacher of Political Technology at the College or university of Chicago and a member from the American Academy of Arts and SciencesCass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University or college Professor, Harvard UniversityDuncan Watts, sociologist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research