ISBN It Can't Happen Here book English Paperback 400 pages

“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—SalonIt Can’t Happen Hereis the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power ofMain Street,Babbitt, andArrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Written during the Great Depression, when the country 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, sex, crime, and a liberal press.

Called “a message to thinking Americans” by theSpringfield Republicanwhen it was published in 1935,It Can’t Happen Hereis a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news.

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a doctor. After an extremely unhappy childhood, he went to Yale…