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Charlotte M. Canning

The Conversation

Charlotte M. Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama at the University of Texas — Austin.

Posters advertise the dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' "It Can’t Happen Here."

The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump’s rise — and countered a swell of Great Depression demagoguery

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Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here,” which described the rise of an American dictator, was turned into a play seen by over 500,000 people.