'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker ...
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'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here.
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ACCEPTABLE in NONE jacket. Size: 11x11x0; Clean, unmarked, tight spine and flat pages. Front cover has a corner missing lower front. Creased along entire spine. Much wear along all edges. Page edges are painted green. Pages are fragile and tanned with pages 5/6, 7/8 of Introduction are both unattached but enclosed in page order. America under a native-born dictator.
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Very good. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Only the gentlest of shelf-wear. An early template for contemporary American electoral theatrics, Lewis's 1935 dystopian classic is here wrapped in candy-coated barbed wire and introduced by illicit psychotherapist, Elaine Brown paramour, Harry Belafonte manager, and general CIA-and FBI-employed entertainment workhorse Jay Richard Kennedy. 'The price you pay for failing to remember your errors, ' Kennedy paraphrases George Santayana in the 1970-dated intro, 'is the agony and doom of repeating them over and over again. ' 331 pp. Mass-Market Paperbacks.
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Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are solid. the cover is intact, but may show scuffs or light creases, as well as a possible rolled corner. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, The former owner may have written their name inside the front or back cover. COVER WILL VARY.
A disturbing and dystopian book only a little less so than contemporary reality. Nonetheless, an important cautionary tale with great currency.
Lewis is a great propagandist and satirist, at times too broad, but I love him and his politics none the less.
BruceHH
Jan 26, 2012
Conservative Populism
Prescient work on the political situation. The main character, Doremus Jessup, is newspaper editor in a Vermont town. He is involved in politics from a media perspective, i.e. trying to be somewhat neutral in coverage, though wary of Buzz Windrip the presidential candidate and his minions who wrested control of the Democratic Party from FDR before WW II. Windrip promised lower taxes and a sizable income for every family, and less regulation. What happened was a totalitarian dictatorship as Windrip installed friends of corporations into government and Corpoism was established. Right to work laws were passed allowing companies to pay workers less and forced labor camps were established from which companies could get workers. Windrip's minions known as Minute Men were the enforcers and though not dressed in black or brown shirts acted like the minions of Hitler and Mussolini. I enjoyed it and feel every American voter should read it bearing in mind that the names have been changed do one needs to look at the policies of the parties,candidates, supporters and especially donors very carefully.
Saundrama
Jul 2, 2009
It can happen anywhere!
I bought this book to replace a long lost copy. Like all Sinclair Lewis books, a few words are dated as Mr. Lewis used 1930ish slang in some of his dialogue (luckily for me, I read this when my mother was alive and she provided definitions). Unfortunately, the chilling story is not outdated, so buy yourself a slang dictionary and read this book.
Seth05
May 3, 2007
What if...
It Can't Happen Here... a phrase often repeated in a book that considers, well, what if it did happen here? A promise of a few thousand dollars to every citizen leads to the election of a dictator and the fallout includes everything from concentration camps to executions. Set in Vermont, this is a powerful novel in which Lewis suggests that it very much can happen here.
