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It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
First Published
2009
Subjects
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
Description
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.