JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
The question asked by Roy Hudson in 1937 (with the striking red-question-marked cover and the germ-y, bacterial typeface for “Reds”:
And the answer–the Reds are us, the U.S. turned inside out by none other than Franklin Roosevelt by using The New Deal to incorporate Marx/Engels Communism and scuttle Capitalism and Democracy:
And the rear cover:
It Can Happen Here is an early version of a title of numerous variants, including the pre-trumpian 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here, the 1964 movie It Happened Here (where Hitler has taken over England, and includes machine-gunning murders of children), and of course Frank Zappa’s “It Can’t Happen Here” (which has nothing to do with the previous bits or anything else, except “Suzy”) to name a few. It Can Happen Here is a bit of a lie, as the case is made that Can=Did.