It Can’t Happen Here By Sinclair Lewis; Signet Classics; 416 pp., $10.99. The problem is that Lewis never actually said it. In the annals of lazy apocryphal quotes, it’s up there with “the ...

Almost a hundred years ago, the great American author Sinclair Lewis wrote a political novel called "It Can't Happen Here". The 1935 book was a warning that what was happening then in Europe ...

Still, even with a new title for the piece, “It Can’t Happen Here — Again,” the effort by Writers for Democratic Action to stage free readings across the country in advance of the election ...

Almost a hundred years ago the great American author Sinclair Lewis wrote a political novel called “It Can’t Happen Here.” The 1935 book was a warning that what was happening then in Europe ...

Poster for a Federal Theater production of "It Can't Happen Here" in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1937. The play was adapted from Sinclair Lewis' dystopian political novel about the rise of a U.S. dictator.

Lewis was inspired to write “It Can’t Happen Here” by his wife, Dorothy Thompson, a pioneering journalist. She spoke fluent German and interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1931, ...