Review: It Can’t Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here, by Lewis

It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, 1935. ISBN 0451465644.

This story tells how fascism could come to America. Lewis wrote it in 1935 – before Hitler attacked Poland in 1939. It shows that it was not too early to predict the rise and some of the consequences of fascism. I was surprised that both television and concentration camps were mentioned. Much of it still rings true to me, how an anti-intellectual streak fueled by class resentment could revive fascism in the US.