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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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.

The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump's rise

Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel 'It Can't Happen Here,' which described the rise of an American dictator, was turned into a play seen by over ...

Librarian Connection » Blog Archive Sinclair Lewis, Trump Prophet ...

A 1935 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis is selling out online and racking up holds in libraries, It Can't Happen Here (PRH/Signet; ...

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 ...

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 ...

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 1935 FE VTG Satire ... - eBay

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis is a dystopian political novel that explores the rise of totalitarianism in the United States.

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | Goodreads

Read 3283 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt…

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 ...

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.

The Parallels Between Donald Trump and the Novel 'It Can't ...

Rob Lorei and guests explore the parallels between the current political situation and literature with Sinclair Lewis's novel, It Can't ...

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.

Hiltzik: How a 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel foretells a fascist coup

In 'It Can't Happen Here,' Sinclair Lewis foresaw not only that a coup would come from the right, but that it would come clothed in populist ...

4 Books That "Predicted" Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign

In the book, presidential candidate Andrew Steele Jarret also uses the campaign slogan, “Help Us to Make America Great Again.” The charming ...

What Reinhold Niebuhr Can Tell Us About Donald Trump | Lawfare

Sinclair Lewis and Elia Kazan have had their Nostradamus moments this year, Lewis for the 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here (“predicted the ...

Sinclair Lewis — It Can't Happen Here | by Aidan Curran | Medium

Book review of It Can't Happen Here, 1935 US political dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis about an obnoxious right-wing populist president.

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 ...