' An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian' Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain outlandish anti-immigrant fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States
- & wins Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip ' Professional Common Man' who promises poor angry voters that he will make America proud & prosperous once more but takes the country down a far darker path As the new regime slides into authoritarianism newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last
- but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here