- Anti-fascist movements, Presidents, Newspaper editors, Fiction
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things, putting his enemies in concentration camps.
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- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co., Rock's Mills Press, The Sun Dial Press
- Editions
- 157
- Language
- Russian, und, English
- ISBN
- 9781720337447
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