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Unfinished film. Television. Legacy. Presidency of Donald Trump. Similar works. References. Further reading. External links. It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] .
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
- 1935
3.78. 19,728 ratings3,167 reviews. 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.
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- 1935
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
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Jan 7, 2014 · It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious ...
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Read the full text of the 1935 classic by Sinclair Lewis, a satire of fascism in America. Follow the story of Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who resists the dictatorship of Buzz Windrip, a former movie star turned demagogue.
Doremus Jessup, the protagonist of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” sees something dark and terrible brewing in American politics — the potential for “a real...
A dystopian novel about a populist senator who turns the U.S. into a fascist dictatorship. Follow Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who tries to expose and resist the tyranny of Buzz Windrip.
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About It Can’t Happen Here. “The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how ...
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