It Can't Happen Here

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Publisher's Synopsis

"The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."-Salon

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 of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press.

Called "a message to thinking Americans" by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can't Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today's news.

Book information

ISBN: 9780451216588
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Berkley
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 340g
Height: 203mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 24mm