Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here — written in 1935 when America had seen the likes of Father Coughlin and Huey Long, and when Lewis could see the Third Reich barreling down on Europe — features a protagonist who was “vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected… He was an actor of genius.”
Spoiler alert: fascism comes to America. The back cover says it all.
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