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Poster for the stage adaptation of ''It Can't Happen Here'', Oct. 27, 1936 at the Lafayette Theater as part of the Detroit Federal Theater
'''It Can't Happen Here''' is a semi-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 resembles (to some extent) the flamboyantly dictatorial Huey Long of Louisiana and Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United States when people blindly support their leaders.
In 1936, Lewis and John C. Moffit wrote a play version, also titled ''It Can't Happen Here'', which is still produced. The stage version premiered on 27 October 1936 in several U.S. cities simultaneously, in productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project.
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Variations
On the Mothers of Invention album ''Freak Out!'', there is an a cappella song titled "It Can't Happen Here", which is about the social and political upheaval of the mid to late 1960s.
See also
★ It Happened Here
External links
★ Full text of It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
★ Book review
★ It Can't Happen Here from Australian Project Gutenberg
★ Public Enemy by Joe Keohane, Boston Globe, December 182005.
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