It Can't Happen Here

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Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here (1970, Penguin Publishing Group)

English language

Published 1970 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-451-09386-8
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It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things, putting his enemies in concentration camps.

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Subjects

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Presidents, united states, fiction
  • Vermont, fiction
  • Canada, fiction
  • Fiction, political