It Can't Happen Here

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