It Can't Happen Here
first publication date: 1935-10-21
original title: It Can’t Happen Here
original language: American English
main subject: fascism, freedom of the press
narrative location: United States of America
characters: Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, Doremus Jessup
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in the fictionalized version of 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany) and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who sees Windrip's fascist policies for what they are ahead of time and who becomes Windrip's most ardent critic. The novel was adapted into a play by Lewis and John C. Moffitt in 1936. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
3- date of publication: 2014-01-07ISBN-13: 978-0-451-46564-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-698-15270-0
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