It Can't Happen Here: A Novel

London: Cape, 1935. First UK edition. Hardcover. Light soling to boards; mild foxing to first and last few pages.. Octavo in pale yellow-cream cloth; 413 pages ; 20 cm. Jacinto Steinhardt's copy (more on him below). A powerful novel that is once again timely. "It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in the fictionalized version of 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany) and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who sees Windrip's fascist policies for what they are ahead of time and who becomes Windrip's most ardent critic. The novel was adapted into a play by Lewis and John C. Moffitt in 1936. ... Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) 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." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). His works were critical of American capitalism and materialism during the interwar period. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."-Wikipedia. "Jacinto (Jay) Steinhardt was a pioneer in military operations research and a founding member of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He went on to serve as the society's third president in 1954. Steinhardt was born in New York City and received all three of his degree locally at Columbia University. After earning his doctorate in chemistry in 1934, he became a National Research Fellow at the Physical-Chemical Institute in Copenhagen. He would go on to hold positions at the Physiological Laboratory in England, the Physical-Chemical Institute in Upsala, Sweden, and the Harvard Medical School. In 1938, he joined the National Bureau of Standards as a physical chemist."- informs.org. Anti-fascist movements -- Fiction. Newspaper editors -- Fiction. Dictators -- Fiction. Fascists -- Fiction. Présidents -- Élection -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Antifascisme -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Rédacteurs en chef -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Dictateurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fascistes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Anti-fascist movements Dictators Fascists Newspaper editors Presidents -- Election Anti-fascist movements -- Fiction Dictators -- Fiction Fascists -- Fiction Newspaper editors -- Fiction Presidents -- Election -- Fiction Science fiction. Fiction Political fiction Science fiction. Political fiction.