by Sinclair Lewis, Jason Stevens
Elmer Gantry may be the most depressing novel I have ever read. Its core message seems to be that people who are willing to lie and cheat will succeed, and even when they occasionally slip up and get caught, if they lie and cheat even harder they will come out even more successful. While I accept th...
Elmer Gantry is sporadically fascinating and engaging - the first third of the novel flies by as you are immersed in the many character flaws of a spiritual huckster. Eventually, the book became very easy to put down, however. Gantry begins as a carousing atheist undergraduate rebelling against his ...
If you've ever laughed at (or been disgusted by) the antics of televangelist charlatans like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, Sinclair Lewis had their number 80 years ago. The fictional Elmer Gantry rises to prominence before the era of radio and TV evangalism, but his greed, self-serving political am...
Forget Main Street. Forget Babbit. Elmer Gantry is Sinclair Lewis' masterpiece no matter what anyone says. Every page still rings true in the 21st century. Elmer Gantry is the loudest, most boisterous, most relevant character in American literature. It's funny, it's sad. it's politically incorrect.....
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