Can it happen here?: authoritarianism in America
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Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard professor, and New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein queried a number of the nation's leading thinkers on whether authoritarianism can happen in America and compiled a collection of their essays that explore the lessons of history, how democracies crumble, how propaganda works, and the role of the media, courts, elections, and fake news play in the modern political landscape.
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Sunstein, C. R., Posner, E. A., Balkin, J. M., Cowen, T., Sunstein, C. R., Power, S., Goldsmith, J. L., Ginsburg, T., Feldman, N., Stenner, K., & Ackerman, B. A. (2018). Can it happen here?: authoritarianism in America. First edition. Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cass R., Sunstein et al.. 2018. Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cass R., Sunstein et al., Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sunstein, Cass R.,, et al. Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. First edition. Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, 2018.
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Dictator's handbook, US edition / |r Eric A. Posner -- |t Constitutional rot / |r Jack M. Balkin -- |t Could fascism come to America? / |r Tyler Cowen -- |t Lessons from the American founding / |r Cass R. Sunstein -- |t Beyond elections: foreign interference with American democracy / |r Samantha Power -- |t Paradoxes of the Deep State / |r Jack Goldsmith -- |t How we lost constitutional democracy / |r Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq -- |t On "It can't happen here" / |r Noah Feldman -- |t Authoritarianism is not a momentary madness, but an eternal dynamic within liberal democracies / |r Karen Stenner and Jonathan Haidt -- |t States of emergency / |r Bruce Ackerman -- |t Another road to serfdom: cascading intolerance / |r Timur Kuran -- |t Resistible rise of Louis Bonaparte / |r Jon Elster -- |t Could mass detentions without process happen here? / |r Martha Minow -- |t Commonsense presidency / |r Duncan J. Watts -- |t Law and the slow-motion emergency / |r David A. Strauss -- |t How democracies perish / |r Stephen Holmes -- |t "It can't happen here": the lessons of history / |r Geoffrey R. Stone. |
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