| Playing Time |
130059 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 187073 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Performer |
Read by Christopher Hunt. |
| Note |
Duration: 13:00:59. |
| Summary |
First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale of the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find how many people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state. |
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Presidents -- Election -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Anti-fascist movements -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Newspaper editors -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Dictators -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Fascists -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Vermont -- Fiction.
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Canada -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Hurt, Christopher, 1959-
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Blackstone Audiobooks.
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| Other Form: |
Original 143322206X (OCoLC)213817563 |
| ISBN |
9781433222115 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1433222116 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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