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.
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here (1970, Penguin Publishing Group)
English language
Published 1970 by Penguin Publishing Group.
Subjects
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Presidents, united states, fiction
- Vermont, fiction
- Canada, fiction
- Fiction, political
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