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Truth Imitates Fiction—It Has Already Happened Here

By Dr. Norman Berdichevsky
Sunday, September 12, 2010

It Can’t Happen Here was a best-selling satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935.

It aroused considerable controversy when published and in the years leading up to World War II.

The plot featured the account of a crusading newspaperman, Doremus Jessup, struggling against the newly elected fascist regime of President Berzelius “Buzzâ€