Joe Conason's "It Can Happen Here"

Joe Conason writes for Salon.com and has written a popular political column for The New York Observer since 1992.

His new book is It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush.

He recently put the new book to the Page 69 Test.

Read a synopsis and an excerpt from It Can Happen Here.

Read Conason's Salon columns and his writing at the New York Observer.

Conason is the author of Big Lies, The Raw Deal, and, with Gene Lyons, The Hunting of the President.

He will be a guest on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" tonight.

--Marshal Zeringue