Poster for a stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, ca. 1936-7

It Can't Happen Here is a satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who was modeled either on Gerald B. Winrod, an evangelist who held far-right political points of view earning him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi", or on Huey Long. It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Fascism or Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders. It is thought to have inspired both Philip K. Dick's SF novel The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's recent The Plot Against America. Download high resolution version (408x640, 44 KB)WPA poster from the Library of Congress: http://memory. ... Download high resolution version (408x640, 44 KB)WPA poster from the Library of Congress: http://memory. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Reverend Dr. Gerald B. Winrod was an evangelist, author, and political activist from Wichita, Kansas. ... Evangelism is the proclaiming of the Christian Gospel. ... Huey Pierce Long (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), known as The Kingfish, was an American politician of the Democratic Party; he was governor of Louisiana (1928–1932), Senator (1932–1935) and a presidential hopeful before his assassination. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies and, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 — March 2, 1982), often known by his initials PKD, and sometimes by the pen name Richard Phillips, was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. ... 1981 Berkley cover of The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle is a 1962 alternative history novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is a Jewish-American novelist who is known for his 1959 collection, Goodbye, Columbus, as well as his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoys Complaint (1969) and for his late-90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a... In 2004, novelist Philip Roth published The Plot Against America: A Novel (ISBN 0618509283), an alternate history where Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in 1940 in his bid for a third term as President of the United States, and Charles Lindbergh is elected. ...

Trivia

Inspired by the book, director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too 'cerebral' for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as anthropophage aliens, taking the story into the realm of science fiction. The new, re-cast story was the mini-series V, which premiered on May 3, 1983. Kenneth Johnson (born 26 October 1942 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Look up alien in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... DVD cover for V - The Original Miniseries V was a 1983 U.S. science fiction television miniseries written and directed by Kenneth Johnson and first shown on NBC. It starred Jane Badler, Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside, Michael Durrell, Jenny Sullivan, Richard Herd, Peter Nelson, David Packer, Blair Tefkin... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• Book review
• It Can't Happen Here Online