It Can't Happen Here

About this book

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things, putting his enemies in concentration camps.

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • antifascisme
  • anti-fascist movements
  • canada, fiction
  • classics
  • dictateurs
  • dictators
  • drama
  • election
  • élection
  • elections
  • english & college success -> english -> fiction
  • fascistes
  • fascists
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, political
  • fiction, war & military
  • historical
  • literary
  • newspaper editors
  • patriotism
  • political
  • politics and government
  • presidents
  • présidents
  • presidents, united states, fiction
  • rédacteurs en chef
  • revolutions
  • romans, nouvelles
  • science fiction
  • vermont, fiction