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It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis · 1935 · Novel

Setting: contemporary (1930s alternate)

Synopsis

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.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Anti-fascist movementsPresidentsNewspaper editorsFictionDramaScience fictionDictatorsFascistsElectionPresidents, united states, fiction

isfdb_id: 12303

openlibrary_id: OL51145W

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