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It Can’t Happen Here Summary. In Sinclair Lewis’s dystopian political novel It Can’t Happen Here, the populist senator and “Professional Common Man” Buzz Windrip wins the 1936 presidential election and turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship. Before the election, most Americans complacently assume that fascism “can’t ...
17 de ene. de 2017 · Doremus Jessup, the protagonist of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” sees something dark and terrible brewing in American politics — the potential for “a real fascist ...
In It Can’t Happen Here, after Buzz Windrip takes over the U.S. presidency, dissenters like Doremus Jessup feel defeated and powerless. Jessup knows that the new administration will be catastrophic for the nation, but he also knows that anyone who speaks out will be spied on, arrested, or far worse. Eventually, Jessup finds an outlet for his ...
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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 ...
But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state. It Can't Happen Here as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Grover Gardner.
Title: It Can't Happen Here Author: Sinclair Lewis eBook No.: 0301001h.html Language: English Date first posted: Jul 2003 Most recent update: Jul 2017 This eBook was produced by Don Lainson and Roy Glashan. View our licence and header * Read our other ebooks by Sinclair Lewis
