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Original Title:	It Can't Happen Here
ISBN:	045121658X (ISBN13: 9780451216588)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Doremus Jessup, Berzelius Windrip, Shad Ledue, Francis Tasbrough, Lee Sarason, Dewey Haik
Setting:	United States of America Washington, D.C.(United States) Vermont(United States)
Literary Awards:	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (2007)

It Can't Happen Here Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	It Can't Happen Here
Author	:	Sinclair Lewis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	October 4th 2005 by NAL Trade (first published October 1935)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Politics. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature

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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 from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity, crime, and a liberal press. Now finally back in print, 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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The first thing you might want to be clear about when you pick up this novel is that Sinclair Lewis is not Upton Sinclair. Not many people realize this. About a week after November 8th 2016, for example, when I dutifully brought It Can't Happen Here up to a clerk at Barnes & Noble (luckily, I didn't have to decide whether to look under 'L' or 'S'- seemingly overnight, without any overt explanation, all manner of totalitarian literature had been put on prominent display throughout the store,

Aside from presaging the reigns of terror under Hitler, Stalin, and the North Korean dynasties, Lewiss frightening novel from 1935 captures the importance of journalistic resistance to totalitarian regimes, as summed up in the final line, a Doremus Jessup can never die, and the importance of retaining ones humour and pluck in the face of meatheaded thuggeries and brainless violence. The disillusioned left-behinds, the Minute Men, are seen as willing to revert to torture and revenge overnight

It Cant Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a 2014 Signet publication. Ill give you three guesses as to why this book showed up on my TBR list, and two dont count. Originally published way back in 1935, Sinclair Lewiss novel seemed to transcend time and is a constant reminder what can happen if we are too complacent or too timid to make our voice heard. There is no need to go over the context of this timeless classic, as it has been analyzed many times over by people far more prolific than myself.

It can. It is.This book is the Nostradamus of our political past, present and potential future. Check out GoodReads' stats for It Can't Happen Here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/stats?...If you're viewing those stats in the future, when the graph no longer covers as far back as 11/8/2016, you will have missed the HUGE spike in activity on this site for this book. Prior to the momentous astounding absolutely fucking unbelievable election of 11/9/2016, interest in this book was hauling in

It Cant Happen Here is Sinclair Lewis political satire and propagandized account of the rise of an American fascist. Perhaps most compelling is the fact that Lewis wrote the book only a couple of years after Hitlers rise to power (and 13 years before Orwells 1984). Lewis was an astute and keen observer of political power and was a canary in the coal mine for a world that would soon know much grief. Considering that Lewis published this in 1935, it is eerily uncanny the way his fictitious

UPDATE: Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis's wife at the time, wrote an article Who Goes Nazi?, where she guesses which of her fellow Americans at a party would become Nazis if given the opportunity. Well worth a read and a parlour game well worth reviving.To give you the flavour, looks like Trump was at the party: I think young D over there is the only born Nazi in the room. Young D is the spoiled only son of a doting mother. He has never been crossed in his life. He spends his time at the game

Written in 1935 this novel has had a sudden resurgence due to world events which somehow seem eerily similar. The story tells of the rise of the next President of the United Stated Berzelius Buzz Windrip, mostly through the eyes of small town journalist, Doremus Jessup (there are some very unusual names in this novel!), his family and local community. Obviously, this novel was written during the time of rising fascism in Europe and the author has cleverly taken those events and the complacency