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Plot. In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year.
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
- 1935
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.
- (19.8K)
- 1935
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
- Paperback
A classic satire of American politics and society, published in 1935. The novel depicts a fictional dictatorship in the United States, led by a demagogue named Buzz Windrip, who rises to power with the slogan "It Can't Happen Here".
The protagonist of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here” sees something dark brewing in American politics.
It Can’t Happen Here, novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935. It is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
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The novel depicts the rise of a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. after a populist senator, Buzz Windrip, wins the 1936 election. It follows the journalist Doremus Jessup, who tries to expose Windrip's tyranny and restore democracy.
