 First edition | |
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Political fiction Dystopian fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran and Company |
Publication date | October 21, 1935 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 458 pp. |
| ISBN | 045121658X |
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis.[1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 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.[2]
- ^ Lewis, Sinclair (1935). It Can't Happen Here. gutenberg.net.au. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Apicella, John (9 September 2012). "It Can't Happen Here and the Federal Theater Project". Retrieved 15 August 2018 – via YouTube.