It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

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In 1936 a folksy populist senator, Buzz Windrip, wins the American presidency on promises of prosperity and order, and within months the country is ruled by his militia. Doremus Jessup, a small-town Vermont newspaper editor, decides he can no longer keep quiet (1935).