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At a Moment of Electoral Equipoise: A Review of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Signet Classics, 2014, 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-451-46564-1.

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At a Moment of Electoral Equipoise: A Review of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Signet Classics, 2014, 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-451-46564-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2025

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The E. William Davis, Jr., Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA CASBI, The Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury, Weill Cornell Medical College and The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA jjfins@med.cornell.edu
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , First View , pp. 1 - 6
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