Sinclair Lewis Michael Meyer (11 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2024 Trade Paperback. xv, 384 pp. Includes a new introduction by Michael Meyer, and a bibliography of Lewis's works, as well as works of biography and criticism. A satirical work of dystopian fiction envisioning an American dictatorship. The causes for the descent into fascism are authentic, making the novel an insightful glimpse of what it looks like to trade one set of evils for another. Lewis wrote the book during the Great Depression, basing the dictatorship on Hitler's, but replacing hateful indoctrination with misleading appeals to American values. Many believe the novel to be a direct reaction to the possible candidacy of Huey Long for president in 1936. It was published five years after Lewis became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lewis also won (and declined) the Pulitzer Prize for his 1925 novel Arrowsmith.…

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Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump's authoritarian appeal."--Salon 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. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's 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. Called "a message to thinking Americans" by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can't Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today's news.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 400 pages. 6.75x4.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: Gut. 380 Seiten; 9780451216588.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

1929 STATED FOURTH PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION YEAR IN VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT 377 PAGE HARDCOVER-BETTER THAN A PAPERBACK.