It Can't Happen Here

Name: It Can't Happen Here
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Sinclair Lewis
ISBN: 9798868752513

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Loudly

Published: 01/08/2024

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

“It Can’t Happen Here” is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. The story is set in a fictionalized version of 1930s United States and follows an American politician, Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country’s first outright dictator. The novel describes the rise of Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and “traditional” values.

About Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. Born in Minnesota, he attended Yale University but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair's socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey. Unable to make a living as a freelance writer, he returned to Yale and earned his degree. In 1914, he published his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man. But it was not until his sixth novel, Main Street, that he won recognition as an important American novelist. His other major works include Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, and It Can't Happen Here, which he also wrote as a play. Lewis was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of books and innumerable articles throughout his career.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 15, 2020

A friend of mine that was recently in London told me that all the bookshops there had Roth's The Plot Against America and It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. Alarmist? Perhaps, but as I already said in my review of The Plot Against America, maybe not. In It Can't Happen Here, rather than Lindberg......more

Goodreads review by Rick on September 19, 2012

I have always thought that if fascism ever came to America it would come clothed in red, white, and blue, with patriotic songs, and quotations from founding fathers. It would be nationalistic. It would extol military endeavors and elevate soldiers to the level of heroes. It would handle the race que......more

Goodreads review by Maru on January 03, 2018

UPDATE: Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis's wife at the time, wrote an article Who Goes Nazi?, where she guesses which of her fellow Americans at a party would become Nazis if given the opportunity. Well worth a read and a parlour game well worth reviving. To give you the flavour, looks like Trump wa......more

Goodreads review by Tom on January 19, 2025

20 January, 2025. Yakko, in director's chair: Alright sweetheart, in this scene we don't want funny ha ha, we want funny uh-oh. Schmendrick: What's funny uh-oh? (pan to white house. flag goes down. second, tackier flag goes up.) Schmendrick: Uh oh! I don't know where things go from here, but I do know......more