A Single Day in January…

…was all it took to bring fictionalized accounts of Fascist takeovers from supposition to hard cold reality.

Insurrections have been the stuff of fiction since Sinclair Lewis postulated a coup in his classic It Can’t Happen Here. Rex Stout followed, lock step, with The President Vanishes (the basis for William Wellman’s 1934 feature of the same name). Jack London put pen to paper with his own dramatic rendering in The…