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Plot. In 1936, American Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip enters the presidential election campaign on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 per year.
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
- 1935
Eso no puede pasar aquí (It Can't Happen Here) es una sátira política distópica del autor Sinclair Lewis de 1935, cuya trama es la llegada al poder de un nuevo presidente que va a crear un estado fascista en los Estados Unidos en crisis tras el crac del 29.
19,818 ratings3,181 reviews. The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
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- 1935
- Sinclair Lewis Lewis
- Paperback
Not happen here? Prohibition—shooting down people just because they might be transporting liquor—no, that couldn't happen in America ! Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours!
It Can’t Happen Here, novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935. It is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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.
