An edition of It Can't Happen Here
(1935)
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.
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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, Elections, Présidents, Élection, Romans, nouvelles, Antifascisme, Rédacteurs en chef, Dictateurs, FascistesPlaces
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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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