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Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump


Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump

The protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel “It Can't Happen Here” sees something dark brewing in American politics.

The 1935 novel that predicted the rise of Donald Trump

Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here features an antihero who whips up support among angry voters on the back of firebrand rhetoric, fearmongering populism ...

Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump - Business Standard

The anxiety began well before the Cleveland convention, where the candidate of the “Forgotten Men,” the one who declared Americans “the ...

Sinclair Lewis Predicted Trump—And Us - The Daily Beast

In his 1935 novel, It Can't Happen Here, the Nobel prize winning author created a demagogue remarkably similar to Trump.

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, ...

Frederic M. Douglas on X: "Reading the Classic Novel That ...

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Prescient about the president: which writers can help us read Trump?

Fictional dystopias by writers from Herman Melville to Philip Roth seem to have had the measure of the new US president many years ahead of time.

Donald Trump and It Can't Happen Here: Read a 1935 Review | TIME

Some say Donald Trump's election was predicted by the Sinclair Lewis novel 'It Cant Happen Here.' Read what TIME had to say about it in ...

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

In the novel, a populist leader who promises to bring America back to her former glory is elected president of the United States. Liberal leaders are stunned ...

Why is Ingersoll Lockwood's "The Last President" so eerily ... - Reddit

I cant tell whether its a fake book completely made up over the past few decades, which cant be true since Ingersoll Lockwood was a real person.

How Sinclair Lewis Invented Donald Trump | New Haven Independent

Lately, like a truffle dog on the hunt, I have sniffed along the New Haven trail of the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for ...

It can't happen here: A review of Live Not By Lies | Denver Catholic

... Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump.” Written by Beverly Gage, it spoke darkly of parallels between the 1935 Sinclair Lewis ...

1900, or the Last President by Ingersoll Lockwood (Audiobook)

1900, or the Last President: The Book That Predicted Donald Trump's Presidency ... Baron Trump's marvellous underground journey - Original Edition. by ...

The Trump era's top-selling dystopian novels - BBC News

Donald Trump has sparked a sales bonanza for publishers of dystopian fiction - and his own books. Here are the five biggest sellers.

Sinclair Lewis' 'It Can't Happen Here' becomes a bestseller after ...

Published in 1935, 'It Can't Happen Here' is a darkly satirical novel that imagines a fascist candidate tromping Franklin D. Roosevelt at ...

Octavia Butler's Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make ...

Abby Aguirre writes about Octavia Butler's “Parable” science-fiction books that predicted Donald Trump.

George Orwell's '1984' Is Suddenly a Best-Seller

George Orwell's classic book “1984,” about a dystopian future where critical thought is suppressed under a totalitarian regime, has seen a surge in sales this ...

It really can happen here: The novel that foreshadowed Donald ...

Amid the 80th anniversary of Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist tome, Trump's campaign makes Lewis look prophetic.

Baron Trump novels - Wikipedia

The Baron Trump novels are two children's novels written in 1889 and 1893 by American author and lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood. They remained obscure until 2017 ...