PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : IT CANTT HAPPEN HERE PB – SINCLAIR LEWIS

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.