It Can't Happen Here

<b>The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal.--Salon</b><i> <p/>It Can't Happen Here</i> is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of <i>Main Street </i> <i>Babbitt</i> and <i>Arrowsmith</i>. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy it is an alarming eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. <p/>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. <p/>Called a message to thinking Americans by the<i> Springfield Republican</i> when it was published in 1935 <i>It Can't Happen Here </i>is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today's news. <p/> <b>With an Introduction by Michael Meyer</b><br><b> and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst</b>