- 1930s
United States, it
follows an
American politician,
Berzelius "Buzz"
Windrip, who
quickly rises to
power to
become the country's
first outright dictator...
- who was the behind-the-scenes
powerbroker for
Windrip even
before Windrip became a senator.
Windrip's vice president,
Perley Beecroft,
escaped to Canada...
-
believed to be the
inspiration for Buzz
Windrip in
Sinclair Lewis'
novel It Can't
Happen Here (1935).
Windrip is a populist, big business-bashing senator...
- – Over the Top", a
fictional populist manifesto by the
demagogue Buzz
Windrip in It Can't
Happen Here Zero Hour (novel), a 1928
autobiographical novel...
-
Sinclair Lewis's 1935
novel It Can't
Happen Here.
Prang endorses Buzz
Windrip, a
character based on Huey Long, who
defeats Roosevelt in the 1936 U.S...
- danger.
Sinclair Lewis portrays Minute Men as
paramilitary forces of Buzz
Windrip's despotic government in his 1935 book It Can't
Happen Here. In the book...
- citizens, but
Windrip declares a
state of
martial law and, with the help of his
Minute Men,
throws the
protesters in jail. As
Windrip dismantles democracy...
-
operative and
adviser to
Berzelius 'Buzz'
Windrip as a
Governor and U.S. Senator. U.S.
Secretary of
State during Windrip's presidency,
during which time the United...
-
President Buzz
Windrip, then
secretary of war and high
marshal of the
Minute Men.
Collaborates in the coup d'état that
removes Windrip and
installs Lee...
