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 ...

Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. In 1935, Sinclair Lewis published the novel It Can’t Happen Here , which told the story of ...

The Future Can’t Happen Here. The election feels like a choice between Trump cartoon reruns and relitigating the New Deal. By . Lance Morrow. Share. Resize. Listen (2 min) ...

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 ...

Throughout history such sociopathic, maniacal autocrats have arisen. Their destructive ways ultimately end in their bunker, but only after destroying so many other’s lives.

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, ...

Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign ...

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 ...

Sterling notes the title of the old story about American fascism by Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here (1935). Only he remembers it, no doubt deliberately, as "it can happen here." ...

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 ...