It Can't Happen Here Paperback - 2005
by Sinclair Lewis; Introduction by Michael Meyer
Lewis's cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy is an alarming and timeless look at how easily fascism could take hold in America is now reissued in a brand-new package. Reissue.
Summary
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity, crime, and a liberal press. Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.
"Written at white heat." —Chicago Tribune
"A message to thinking Americans." —Springfield Republican
"Not only [Lewis's] most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in this country." —The New Yorker
First line
The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.
Details
- Title It Can't Happen Here
- Author Sinclair Lewis; Introduction by Michael Meyer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, New York, New York
- Date 2005-10-01
- ISBN 9780451216588 / 045121658X
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.38 x 0.93 in (20.32 x 13.67 x 2.36 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Library of Congress subjects Vermont, Canada
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 10/15/2005, Page 95
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