# It Can't Happen Here

**Author(s):** Sinclair Lewis
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**Genres:** literary-fiction, sci-fi, literary-classics, historical-fiction
**Pages:** 376
**Publisher:** CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781517317492
**ISBN-10:** 1517317495
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/it-cant-happen-here

## Description

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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