It Can't Happen Here. Are we so sure? Many would suggest that it certainly could happen 'here, ' which is precisely the point that Sinclair Lewis was making when he wrote this book in 1935. This, incidentally, was still a few years before the worst fears would unfold in Germany,...
"Written at white heat...terrific impace...powerful, great,"-The Chicago Tribune. This porphetic novel captures an America blackened by the shadow of totalitarianism.
It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.