When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Sinclair Lewis
An American Visionary
In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis lamented that “in America most of us — not readers alone, but even writers — are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.”
After winning the Nobel Prize, Lewis wrote eleven more novels, ten of which appeared in his lifetime. The best remembered is It Can’t Happen Here, a novel about the election of a fascist to the American presidency.
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Reblogged because considered of great significance to an understanding of the political climate in the United States of the current day.
