This scene occurs about two-thirds of the way through Sinclair Lewis’ novel “It Can’t Happen Here.” Already, Lewis has described how Sen. Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, an entertainingly ...

including some who said that it’s not a Sinclair Lewis quote. We reached out to Working Families, a political group where Bryce is a senior advisor, according to his Twitter bio, to ask about ...

[image_credit]Wikimedia Comons[/image_credit][image_caption]Sinclair Lewis in 1944[/image_caption ... implications for current state of American politics. “It Can’t Happen Here” serves ...

Lewis’s political beliefs were both complex and ... the book from being a dreary ideological broadside a la, say, Upton Sinclair. Windrip is elected not by true believers but by the Daughters ...

Sinclair Lewis published the novel as Adolf Hitler ... It is a strange moment—theatre merging with the theatricality of American politics. The rise of Windrip is watched disapprovingly by ...

This is, instead, a character named Berzelius Windrip in Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel ... shove his political opponents into concentration camps, and demand Jews ...

No wreaths. No scribbled notes from adoring fans. And that might not have surprised the man it honors: Harry Sinclair Lewis. It’s been nearly a century since Lewis, through the biting satire of ...

Internet memes purporting to quote a statement by 20th-century novelist Sinclair Lewis about fascism coming to America have circulated more or less continuously since the mid-2000s, even though ...

Sinclair Lewis captured the narrow-mindedness and ... earning her a national readership of 10 million people with her impassioned political views and her focus on women’s lives.

Today I’m reading “It Can’t Happen Here,” by Sinclair Lewis, which is evoking the same existential dread I experienced those many years ago. Fortunately, in 1962, life didn’t imitate art.