Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Democracyhere and in Britain and France, it hasnt been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russiaeven if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R.C., and given you altogether too much power and money. It is said that her eyes flashed real fire, and that she faced the Jack-in-office like Joan of Arc with eyeglasses while she gave him a piece of her mind that, I tell you, my friends, the trouble with this whole country is that so many are, ! In the context of the late thirties, when America was menaced by Italy, Germany, and Japan, Lewis suggests making Thoreau the supreme Duce as an answer to those imposing forms of oppression. .. Pollyanna is silenced and Cassandra is doing all the talking. There was much for Cassandra to talk about: the administration of the New Deal seemed hopelessly bogged down and the fierce strident polemics of popular leaders such as Huey Long and Father Coughlin seemed to speak more directly than the president to the poor, the dispossessed, the frustrated, and the angry. An upland hollow and mist beneath the moona veil of mist over apple blossoms and the heavy bloom of an ancient lilac bush beside the ruin of a farmhouse burned these sixty years and more. The Reverend Dr. Egerton Schlemil, dean of St. Agnes Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas, stated (once in a sermon, once in the slightly variant mimeographed press handout on the sermon, and seven times in interviews) that Buzzs coming into power would be like the Heaven-blest fall of revivifying rain upon a parched and thirsty land. Dr. Schlemil did not say anything about what happened when the blest rain came and kept falling steadily for four years. } else { The book perfectly describes the political situation in our country today. Getting their music by turning a dial. It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. gads.src = (useSSL ? To unite the population against a common enemy, wars are threatened or declared on neighbouring countries. In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature. . Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2005, I will start my review by quoting another review: "In a republic such as ours, we get the government that the most afraid deserve. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. Anyway, he skipped up now and murmured: Well, all the birdies in their nest agree. } I can't really say I enjoyed it because it's so close to what HAS happened. He was never governor; he had shrewdly seen that his reputation for research among planters-punch recipes, varieties of poker, and the psychology of girl stenographers might cause his defeat by the church people, so he had contented himself with coaxing to the gubernatorial shearing a trained baa-lamb of a country schoolmaster whom he had gayly led on a wide blue ribbon. Although Lewiss protagonist, Doremus Jessup, is a mild, rather indolent and somewhat sentimental Liberal (p. 46) who is slow to respond to the rise of an American version of a fascist dictatorship, Lewis responded quickly and intensely to the fascist threats he saw all around him. It Can't Happen Here is also a novel about relationships and families. 13). The tables, arranged on three sides of a hollow square, were bright with candles, cut-glass dishes of candy and slightly tough almonds, figurines of Mickey Mouse, brass Rotary wheels, and small silk American flags stuck in gilded hard-boiled eggs. At least twice a day, Doremus resolved to fire him, but Perhaps he was telling himself the truth when he insisted that it was amusing to try to civilize this prize bull. Only the names have been changed. Jessup. Not me, m lad. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the tradeit is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds.". The rise of Naziism and Hitler meets Orwell's 1984 meets any despotic regime you care to mention. Please try again later. And the Jew Communists and Jew financiers plotting together to control the country. Lewis believed that the greater danger to American democracy was fascism. Please try again. With the rise of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Europe and the alarming popularity of a variety of demagogues from both the left and right in the United States, there was widespread concern that the country could be taken over by a fascist dictatorship. , though firmly anchored in the politics of the 1930s, surfaces as a revealing and disturbing read. November 2, 2022. in News. Item Price. Our only genuine relationship to Europe is in our arduous task of having to try and educate the crass and ignorant masses that Europe has wished onto us up to something like a semblance of American culture and good manners. This book could have been written yesterday. .or we shall perish!, The applause was cyclonic. It's not funny anymore. } window.Mobvious = {}; She wanted to send to every soldier at the Front a canary in a cage. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson." Richard P. Blackmur famously characterized the book as "a weapon of the intellect rather than a novel; there is hardly a literary question that it does not fail to raise and there is hardly a rule for the good conduct of . The story tells of the rise of the next President of the United Stated Berzelius Buzz Windrip, mostly through the eyes of small town journalist, Doremus Jessup (. (Hm. : Lewiss response to a potential fascist dictatorship offered no specific remedies; this was, however, not a fault but a strategy, because he was writing a satirical novel rather than a five-year plan framed by an inaugural address. Make no mistake, American fascism is possible with just the right rhetoric and influence. The Causes of Climate Change. Recalling the achievement of men such as Thaddeus Stevens and Stephen A. Douglas, he compares them to what he describes as the wishy-washy young people today, and he wonders aloud, if were breeding up any paladins like those stout, grouchy old devils?if were producing em anywhere in New England?anywhere in America?anywhere in the world? I could not ignore the parallels we see in todays fractured political climate. Einziger Punktabzug: das ist kein Taschenbuch, wie wir es kennen in Deutschland, sondern eben ein amerikanisches Paperback: billigstes Papier, teils schlechter Druck. With your great experience, dont you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhapsjust maybewhen a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless neer-do-wells, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Instead, he successfully aroused a generation of Americans to the dangers that swirled around them. It was an endearing mess of novels, copies of the Congressional Record, of the New Yorker, Time, Nation, New Republic, New Masses, and Speculum (cloistral organ of the Medieval Society), treatises on taxation and monetary systems, road maps, volumes on exploration in Abyssinia and the Antarctic, chewed stubs of pencils, a shaky portable typewriter, fishing tackle, rumpled carbon paper, two comfortable old leather chairs, a Windsor chair at his desk, the complete works of Thomas Jefferson, his chief hero, a microscope and a collection of Vermont butterflies, Indian arrowheads, exiguous volumes of Vermont village poetry printed in local newspaper offices, the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, Science and Health, Selections from the Mahabharata, the poetry of Sandburg, Frost, Masters, Jeffers, Ogden Nash, Edgar Guest, Omar Khayym, and Milton, a shotgun and a .22 repeating rifle, an Isaiah College banner, faded, the complete Oxford Dictionary, five fountain pens of which two would work, a vase from Crete dating from 327 B.C.very uglythe World Almanac for year before last, with the cover suggesting that it had been chewed by a dog, odd pairs of horn-rimmed spectacles and of rimless eyeglasses, none of which now suited his eyes, a fine, reputedly Tudor oak cabinet from Devonshire, portraits of Ethan Allen and Thaddeus Stevens, rubber wading-boots, senile red morocco slippers, a poster issued by the Vermont Mercury at Woodstock, on September 2, 1840, announcing a glorious Whig victory, twenty-four boxes of safety matches one by one stolen from the kitchen, assorted yellow scratch pads, seven books on Russia and Bolshevismextraordinarily pro or extraordinarily cona signed photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, six cigarette cartons, all half empty (according to the tradition of journalistic eccentrics, Doremus should have smoked a Good Old Pipe, but he detested the slimy ooze of nicotine-soaked spittle), a rag carpet on the floor, a withered sprig of holly with a silver Christmas ribbon, a case of seven unused genuine Sheffield razors, dictionaries in French, German, Italian, and Spanishthe first of which languages he really could reada canary in a Bavarian gilded wicker cage, a worn linen-bound copy of Old Hearthside Songs for Home and Picnic whose selections he was wont to croon, holding the book on his knee, and an old cast-iron Franklin stove. Please try again. : From New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein, a compelling collection of essays by the brightest minds in America on authoritarianism. It is a dense read and references to that time may turn a reader off. //]]>. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitlers aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. She rejoiced the heart of Doremus by consenting to stay home while she was finishing high school, though she talked vigorously of going off to study architecture and simply make millions, my dear, by planning and erecting miraculous small homes. Since I'm 65 and my eyes aren't as good as they use to be I was hoping this was a book with larger or at least regular print. Jessups widowed daughter enthusiastically tucks these pamphlets inside copies of the Readers Digest at the drugstore, while his younger daughter serves as a secret agent in the enemy camp and fends off lewd advances. When I cautiously ask them what the dickens war they are preparing for they just scratch and indicate they dont care much, so long as they can get a chance to show what virile proud gents they are. Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beardin a community where to sport a beard was to confess ones self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Good Lord! About the United States only wanting peace, and freedom from all foreign entanglements. The names, as well as political events and movements, certainly form the major portion of the books highly detailed political scenery, but theres little, if any, doubt about how Lewis wants us to think about them. He picked it up and started to read briskly, standing by the table. Of course, Senator Windrip has to pretend publicly to bawl the banks out, but once he gets into power hell give the banks their proper influence in the administration and take our expert financial advice. !function(){function n(n,t){var r=i(n);return t&&(r=r("instance",t)),r}var r=[],c=0,i=function(t){return function(){var n=c++;return r.push([t,[].slice.call(arguments,0),n,{time:Date.now()}]),i(n)}};n._s=r,this.csa=n}(); Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. An illustration of an audio speaker. It Can't Happen Here was published in 1935, as the US was still recovering from the depression. What emerged after four months of feverish work was It Can't. }); } Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015, A Truly Prescient NovelBut Not in the Way You Would Think, Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2020. Castle walls. g = p.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; Sinclair Lewis satirizes with biting humor the potential for America to fall to populist demagogues with nothing to say but. Jessup subscribes to these values, and though they are implicitly subversive in a politically repressive atmosphere, Lewis describes him as understanding himself too well to consider himself a left-wing radical; instead he is a tentative liberal who basically wants to be left alone to enjoy his small-town life and newspaper work. (Steven Savage, Sept. 23, 2005), Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2022. var ue_sn = "www.goodreads.com"; Feeding on people's fears and frustrations, a charismatic figure can win support, no matter how brutal the philosophy. The youngsters today Oh, the aviators have plenty of nerve. , Item Weight Naturally, he corresponded for papers in Boston and Springfield, and after graduation he was a reporter in Rutland and Worcester, with one glorious year in Boston, whose grimy beauty and shards of the past were to him what London would be to a young Yorkshireman. Lewis was intimately familiar with these concerns because Dorothy Thompson, his second wife, had interviewed Hitler as a foreign correspondent in Berlin and had written a series of articles between 1931 and 1935 warning Americans about the Nazi propaganda machine that masked the vicious persecution of Jews and the growing number of concentration camps designed to annihilate them. It Cant Happen Here has been a best-seller on Amazon.com, where it has sold out several times since 2016. Hasnt even bothered to format the text properly (e.g. On the wall was a banner lettered Service Before Self, and the menuthe celery, cream of tomato soup, broiled haddock, chicken croquettes, peas, and tutti-frutti ice-creamwas up to the highest standards of the Hotel Wessex. I believed that we must remain vigilant, but we were all aware of history and our people would never allow blind worship to affect and infect our political decisions. And in the end, as the Rotarians shuffled and dealt themselves and their innumerable motorcars, it was Frank Tasbrough who invited the choicer males, including Doremus, home for an after-party. var ue_furl = "fls-na.amazon.com"; Invoking the highest patriotic principles, Windrip disguises his fascism in the historical trappings of the Republic; his Gestapo, for example, is called the Minute Men. (reflected the cynic, Doremus Jessup, that evening) is a somewhat confusing organizationas confusing as Theosophy, Relativity, or the Hindu Vanishing Boy Trick, all three of which it resembles. Since I'm 65 and my eyes aren't as good as they use to be I was hoping this was a book with larger or at least regular print. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. This book could have been written yesterday. This section contains 2,446 words. Doremus went on: If Bishop Prang, our Savonarola in a Cadillac 16, swings his radio audience and his League of Forgotten Men to Buzz Windrip, Buzz will win. It certainly portrays a horrific turn of events taken very tamely by the population, yet focusing on fairly "average" people who respond with incredible bravery, while others become instruments of terror. Please try again. Read Today is the first integrated learning platform where you can see, hear, and practice beginning language skills in multiple languages. , Paperback Still worth the price to have my own copy. Whether the vague dissatisfactions festering in George F. Babbitt, the unrealistic impulses toward reform fluttering in Carol Kennicott, or the linear, though uncertain, determination of a Martin Arrowsmith, Lewiss most interesting characters want, as Carol Kennicott puts it in Main Street, a more conscious life, were tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. Lewis clearly admired and identified with Jessupso much so that he played the role of Jessup in a dramatic adaptation by the South Shore Players in Cohasset, Massachusetts, one of many of the plays productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project throughout the country in the wake of the novels popularity. There was in the parsonage little meat but plenty of books, not all theological by any means, so that before he was twelve Doremus knew the profane writings of Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tolstoy, Balzac. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracys given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. He did accept, however, when in 1930 he became the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Why, where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours! The first part of this book obviously has eerie parallels with the present, from the "League of Forgotten Men" to (President) Buzz Windrip's book "Zero Hour" from which excerpts preface each of the early chapters. I am fond of Lorinda Pike, but why does she have to show off and parade all her silly Socialist ideas?, You old Tory! said Doremus. It could happen anywhere! }, But don't relax yet. Why are you so afraid of the word Fascism, Doremus? Recommended to history lovers, people who keep up with current events, etc. He who falls in this fight falls in the radiance of the future., The liberals who worried about the possible consequences that attended this future brave new world were particularly wary because the Old World had already produced Hitler and Mussolini. googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; He died in Rome in 1951. Copyright 2022 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Remember Tom Heflin and Tom Dixon? He became known in the 1920s for his books that satirized the spartan materialism and intolerance that typified life in small towns across the country. Unfortunately, his writing displays the haste in which he wroteand so do the books reviews. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Read Today: A Language Learning Platform . Excerpt. Could it happen here? What this country needs is Discipline! As Crowley says, might be a good thing to have a strong man in the saddle, butit just cant happen here in America., And it seemed to Doremus that the softly moving lips of the Reverend Mr. Falck were framing, The hell it cant!, DOREMUS JESSUP, editor and proprietor of the Daily Informer, the Bible of the conservative Vermont farmers up and down the Beulah Valley, was born in Fort Beulah in 1876, only son of an impecunious Universalist pastor, the Reverend Loren Jessup. This gospel of clean and aggressive strength is spreading everywhere in this country among the finest type of youth. [CDATA[ R. P. Blackmur laments that there is hardly a literary question that it does not fail to raise and there is hardly a rule for the good conduct of novels that it does not break (Nation, October 1935). Pages of book falling out, starting with page one. set list: allgararo on it can't happen here by sinclair lewis / the specials-enjoy yourself ( more specials 1980) / melle mel & the furious five-white lines / the crystals-uptown / david bowie-bring on the disco king ( underworld ost 2003) / the dramatics-whatcha see is whatcha get ( 1971) / syd barrett-it's no good trying ( take 5, 11 april "Senator 'Buzz' Windrip, having used hot rhetoric, warm folksiness, and cold calculation to get into the White House, proceeds to bring in his own paramilitary storm troopers, seizes control of the government, and sets in motion his totalitarian program." *** "A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an . .for these United States, alone among the great powers, have no desire for foreign conquest. Cheers. With an Introduction by Michael Meyer and an Afterword by Gary Scharnhorst Product Details About the Author Read an Excerpt Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. Many of them are scanned, often poorly. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. He who falls in this fight falls in the radiance of the future., The liberals who worried about the possible consequences that attended this future brave new world were particularly wary because the Old World had already produced Hitler and Mussolini. Doremus trotted into the kitchen, decided that he did not want some cold chicken and a glass of milk from the ice-box, nor even a wedge of the celebrated cocoanut layer cake made by their cook-general, Mrs. Candy, and mounted to his study, on the third, the attic floor. Growing inequality. He had been known to. In March of 1935, two months before Sinclair Lewis began writing, , Walter Lippmann lamented in a popular magazine that the United States had come to a period of discouragement. Its title is: It Can't Happen Here. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. It Can't Happen Here is set in the turbulent 1930s, a time of serious economic desperation and political turmoil in the United States and Europe. were hiding out in Oskaloosa, and the Republicans campaigning against Al Smith told the Carolina mountaineers that if Al won the Pope would illegitimatize their children? Sinclair Lewis wrote this story during the Great Depression, during the Age of Dictators. He was on every occasion heard to say, We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks. Louis was altogether convinced that if the ignorant politicians would keep their dirty hands off banking and the stock exchange and hours of labor for salesmen in department stores, then everyone in the country would profit, as beneficiaries of increased business, and all of them (including the retail clerks) be rich as Aga Khan. With the rise of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Europe and the alarming popularity of a variety of demagogues from both the left and right in the United States, there was widespread concern that the country could be taken over by a fascist dictatorship. And Doremus Jessup popped up to soothe them all, being an intimate of Lorinda, and having, since milkiest boyhood, chummed with and detested Francis Tasbrough. Senator Berzelius Windrip owns, State. He found a ready-made plot in the nervous undercurrent that accompanied the volatile politics of the period. Naturally, he corresponded for papers in Boston and Springfield, and after graduation he was a reporter in Rutland and Worcester, with one glorious year in Boston, whose grimy beauty and shards of the past were to him what London would be to a young Yorkshireman. It was just long enough after the Great War of 1914-18 for the young people who had been born in 1917 to be ready to go to college. He believed that dissenteven a cranky, erratic, eccentric, old-fashioned version of itwas not disloyalty but at the heart of an American democratic identity. Found the book profound. Money grubbers! The D.A.R. Aah! D. Jessuptopographical patriot. 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