Washington Free Beacon··Sunday, November 8, 2026, 5:00 AM

A Sorry State of Affairs

In Sinclair Lewis's classic cautionary tale, It Can't Happen Here, Secretary of State Lee Sarason tries to increase his clout by offering golden opportunities and rosy futures. "His office door," we are told, "became the door of ambition." There are no such doors in A.G. Doran's debut, Pale Dread. The State Department here is where ambition goes to die.

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