![]() ![]() ![]() 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. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. ![]() Mencken wrote of him, " there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. In 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.įirst edition of Lewis’ later masterpiece. ![]()
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