Could It Happen Here? During the Great Depression (1929-1940's) the U.S., falling apart at the seams economically, desperately needed someone to pull them out of the downward spiraling vortex of poverty. If someone happened to take advantage of the country's situation, they might create a dictatorial U.S. much like the one Sinclair Lewis envisioned in his novel It Can't Happen Here which he happened to write directly in the middle of the …showed first 75 words of 651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 651 total…there own lives and to the country. Fortunately, this situation never developed in real life, even during the depression. By writing this book, Sinclair definitely opened everyone's eyes to the possibility of the U.S. turning into a dictatorship and of how easily a desperate country could be shaped into what one powerful person envisioned. Hopefully this idea stays in our mind forever and nothing like this shall ever happen to the actual U.S.