It Can't Happen Here

author: Lewis, Sinclair
Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program.
year: 1935, 2007, 2005, 2014
call number/section: 1000
subjects: dictators, fiction, dystopias, presidents, united states, election, anti-fascist movements, newspaper editors, vermont, fiction, canada, fascists, world war, 1939-1945, underground movements, political fiction, political fiction

Editions


It Can't Happen Here
Lewis, Sinclair
Penguin/Signet (1935)
Outraged at Hitler's aggression in Europe, Lewis produced this warning novel about the fragility of democracy in America, and how easily we could be turned into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Schools: 0



It can't happen here
Lewis, Sinclair
Center Point Pub. (2007)

Schools: 0



It can't happen here
Lewis, Sinclair
Signet Classics (2005)
Political satire exploring how America could easily become a totalitarian state.
Schools: 3



It can't happen here
Lewis, Sinclair
Signet Classics (2014)
Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program.
Schools: 2



It can't happen here
Lewis, Sinclair

Senator "Buzz" Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program.
Schools: 1


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