Book Review: It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

A satire about the rise of a charismatic leader, Berzelius (Buzz) Windrip, vowing to restore America’s prosperity and greatness under the economic and political turmoil. You only have to promise money and glory and package them into catchy slogans, and fascism sneaks into the country with its Minute Men, concentration camps, and censored press. Sinclair Lewis shows that such a thing can happen in America as well. It’s so easy to think that our societies are so secure that nothing so horrific can...