“What makes Trump immune can be that he is not a leader within the context of a healthy Republican government. He’s a cult head of a movement that has bought out a politics party – and he specifically campaigned on a platform of one-man guideline. This reality permeates “Can It Happen Here? . which concludes, in the event that you read between your lines, that “it” currently provides.” – New York Times Book Review

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

Using the election of Donald J. Trump, many people on both left and correct feared that America’s 240-year-old grand test in democracy was arriving at an end, which Sinclair Lewis’ satirical book, It Can’t Happen Here, written through the dark times of the 1930s, could finally be coming true. Is the democratic freedom that the United States symbolizes really secure? Can authoritarianism happen in the us?

Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard Professor, and New York Moments bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein queried many of the nation’s leading thinkers. With this thought-provoking collection of essays, these recognized thinkers and theorists explore the lessons of history, how democracies crumble, how propaganda functions, and the part of the press, courts, elections, and ‘false news’ in the modern political landscape-and what the continuing future of the United States may hold.

Contributors include:

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