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Poster for the stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, October 27,
1936 at the Lafayette Theater as part of the Detroit Federal Theater
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel by
Sinclair Lewis published in 1935 by Doubleday, Doran. Its plot centers
around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist
regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip.
Contents
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* 1 Plot
* 2 In other media
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links
[edit] Plot
Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician,
is elected President of the United States on a populist platform,
promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and,
more important, promising each citizen $5,000 a year (approximately
$79,270, adjusted for inflation[1]). Once in power, however, he
becomes a dictator: he outlaws dissent, puts his political enemies in
concentration camps, and creates a paramilitary force called the
Minute Men who terrorize the citizens. One of his first acts as
President is to make changes to the Constitution which give him sole
power over the country, rendering Congress obsolete. This is met by
protest from the congress as well as outraged citizens, but Windrip
declares a state of martial law and, with the help of his Minute Men,
throws the protesters in jail. As Windrip dismantles democracy, most
Americans either support him and his Corpo Regime wholeheartedly or
reassure themselves that fascism "can't happen" in America (hence the
book's title).
The few who openly oppose Windrip's regime form a secret protest
organization called The New Underground, establishing a secret
propaganda periodical under the alias the Vermont Vigilance. Doremus
Jessup becomes a major contributor to these publications, writing
editorials decrying the state's abuses of power. Shad Ledue, head of
the state police and Jessup's former employee, terrorizes him,
eventually putting him in a camp. He also goes after Jessup's family,
attempting to seduce Jessup's daughter, Sissy. Eventually, however,
Ledue falls out of favor with Windrip, and he is put in the same camp
as Jessup, where he is murdered by the angry inmates he sent there.
After Jessup's friend bribes a guard, Jessup escapes from the camp,
rejoins his family, and goes to Canada to join a resistance movement.
In time, Windrip's hold on power begins to weaken; the economic
prosperity he promised has not materialized, and more and more people
are fleeing to Canada to escape his government's brutality. Windrip's
lieutenants stage a coup; Secretary of State and Windrip's number two
man, Lee Sarason, becomes president and has Windrip exiled to France.
In the ensuing power vacuum, they fight among themselves for control,
setting the stage for the regime's self-destruction. After another
coup, ousting Sarason in favor of General Haik, the Corpo Regime's
power slowly starts seeping away and the government desperately tries
to find a way to keep the people happy with the Regime. They decide to
stir up patriotic fervor by slandering Mexico in the state-run
newspapers, with the idea that an all-out invasion of the country will
rally the American people around the government. But the resulting
draft of 5 million men for the invasion splits the country into
factions: those pro-war and loyal to the Corpo government, and those
anti-war who now see that they have been manipulated for years. The
story ends with Jessup in Minnesota, working with Walt Trowbridge,
leader of the opposition movement, to end the Fascist regime's hold on
the American people.
[edit] In other media
In 1936, Lewis and John C. Moffitt wrote a stage version, also titled
It Can't Happen Here,[2] which is still produced. The stage version
premiered on October 27, 1936 in several U.S. cities simultaneously,
in productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project.
A 1968 television movie, Shadow on the Land (alternate title: United
States: It Can't Happen Here) was produced by Screen Gems as a pilot
for a series loosely based on this book.[3]
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 man-eating
extraterrestrials, 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.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
* It Happened Here
* The Plot Against America
[edit] References
1. ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2008. Federal Reserve
Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
2. ^ IBDB listing for It Can't Happen Here
3. ^ IMDb listing for Shadow on the Land
[edit] External links
* Book review
* Public Enemy by Joe Keohane, Boston Globe, December 18, 2005.
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Books by Sinclair Lewis
Hike and the Aeroplane · Our Mr. Wrenn · The Job · The Innocents ·
Free Air · Main Street · Babbitt · Arrowsmith · Mantrap · Elmer Gantry
· The Man Who Knew Coolidge · Dodsworth · Ann Vickers · Work of Art ·
It Can't Happen Here · Selected Stories · The Prodigal Parents ·
Bethel Merriday · Gideon Planish · Cass Timberlane · Kingsblood Royal
· The God Seeker · World So Wide
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It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
Author Joe Conason
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Authoritarianism, George W. Bush
Publisher Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Publication date February, 2007 (1st edition, hardcover)
Media type Hardcover
Pages 238 pages (1st edition, hardcover)
ISBN ISBN 0-312-35605-6 (1st edition, hardcover)
OCLC Number 76140399
Dewey Decimal 973.93 22
LC Classification E902 .C658 2007
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush (2007) is a
nonfiction book written by liberal writer and commentator Joe Conason.
Conason discusses what he sees as a trend towards authoritarianism
during the administration of US President George W. Bush, focusing on
manipulation of intelligence and public opinion surrounding the Iraq
War, disregard of national and international law (the NSA warrantless
wiretapping controversy and signing statements are used as examples),
the increased mix of big business and government, and more. The title
comes from Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here (1935), which
portrays an American dictatorship and is quoted frequently throughout
the book.
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