It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
Original Title: It Can’t Happen Here
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Genres: Fiction, Political fiction, Dystopian
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A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path.
As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right?
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to "save the nation."
It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.
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