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The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump's rise – and countered a swell of Great Depression demagoguery

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imagePosters advertise the dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' 'It Can't Happen Here.'Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship.

From Aristophanes satirizing the senselessness of the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata to Shakespeare telling the story of Elizabeth I’s grandparents in Henry IV Parts I and II,...

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