Getting Close to Fascism with Sinclair Lewis's “It Can't Happen Here”

“It Can't Happen Here,” which came out in 1935, was a frightening book written for frightening times. Sinclair Lewis published the novel as ...

American Fascism Theme in It Can't Happen Here | LitCharts

In Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, the charismatic, folksy U.S. Senator Buzz Windrip builds a massive popular following during the Great Depression, ...

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | Faculty of English

His writing career began in newspaper and magazine journalism, and It Can't Happen Here was written after he won the Nobel Prize. It has become arguably his ...

it can't happen here - by sinclair lewis - Penguin Random House

The plot of It Can't Happen Here, published in 1935, has an uncanny resemblance to political events of the 21st century. In the novel, a populist leader who ...

Sinclair Lewis Issued Warning About Fascism Coming to America?

The premise of "It Can't Happen Here," published at a time (1935) when authoritarian regimes were flexing their muscles all across Europe and ...

It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia

It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, ...

Fascism Can't Happen Here - Interminable Rambling

The title of the article harkens back to Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here, a novel that shows the ways that fascism progresses ...

Sinclair Lewis's Nightmare: On “This Happened Here” and “Rising ...

... Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here derive inspiration from Sinclair Lewis's classic novel It Can't Happen Here. The 1935 work of fiction ...

Kenneth Johnson - Back in 1982, I read Sinclair Lewis's... | Facebook

Back in 1982, I read Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel “It Can't Happen Here” about how the rise in a fascist, autocratic government led by a demagogue or...

It Can Happen Here - Mother Jones

In 1935, Sinclair Lewis published the novel It Can't Happen Here, which told the story of fascism triumphing in the United States. The book ...

There's Something Happening Here - The Culture Crush

When American author Sinclair Lewis wrote the political novel It Can't Happen Here in 1935, there was no lack of inspiration.

It Could Happen Here - Progressive.org

... Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist play It Can't Happen Here, she reached out to New Hampshire Theatre Company artist Kathleen Somssich to plan a ...

It Can't Happen Here (1935): Sinclair Lewis (Chapter 16)

Revisiting Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here in the wake of Donald Trump's rise to the presidency, this chapter argues that the novel is still valuable ...

FAQ – The Sinclair Lewis Society - Illinois State University

It Can't Happen Here (1935). Responding to fascist events in Europe, including Hitler's aggressive actions and Franco's murderous acts in Spain, Lewis warned ...

'Minute Men' At The Capitol? Reading Sinclair Lewis's 'It Can't ...

'It Can't Happen Here' hinges on its self-described 'Forgotten Men,' otherwise-respectable and zealously middle-class 'Minute Men' whose ...

It CAN Happen Here - by Scott Monty - Timeless & Timely

... It Can't Happen Here, a dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis that was published in 1935. In it, citizens of the United States voluntarily vote their way into ...

Touchstone Texts: It Can't Happen Here - Common Reader

Artistically and technically, Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here is not a good novel. Nearly every reviewer at the time of the book's ...

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis | Evergreen Podcasts

Host: Frank Lavallo. Readers: Elizabeth Flood and Katie Smith. Author: Sinclair Lewis. Year of Publication: 1935. Plot: "It Can't Happen Here" is Sinclair ...

Sinclair Lewis Says It CAN Happen Here - Seedbed

The two main characters in It Can't Happen Here are Berzelius (Buzz) Windrip, a Democratic senator from Kansas, and mild-mannered Doremus Jessup ...

It Can't Happen Here — Writers for Democratic Action

& Our Partners Across America. In 1936, It Can't Happen Here, a stage adaptation by Sinclair Lewis of his own bestselling novel, opened simultaneously in 21 ...