The Woman Who Interviewed Hitler
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Dorothy Thompson's It Can't Happen Here
Dorothy Thompson was very influential in how Sinclair Lewis thought about the future of the United States. She looks at Roosevelt as a proto-dictator, everything he does to help Americans during the Depression freaks her out. In almost every way, she's opposed to Roosevelt except when it comes to foreign affairs. That increasingly puts her at odds with the owners of the Herald Tribune.
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