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The Wave

The Classroom Experiment That Went too Far

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The Wave

By: Todd Strasser
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
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The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Ben Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave", with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action," sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

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Never again, means never again for anyone. This short novel should be mandatory reading in high schools across the world. How easily our communities can, and are, slipping into fascism.

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a terrifying look at how easily fascism can reoccur and the importance of learning lessons from history

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