It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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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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Anti-fascist movements, Presidents, Newspaper editors, Fiction, Drama, Science fiction, Dictators, Fascists, Election, Presidents, united states, fiction, Vermont, fiction, Canada, fiction, Fiction, political, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, Patriotism, Revolutions, Politics and government, ElectionsPlaces
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It Can't Happen Here
2007, Center Point Large Print
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