This is a 1927 novel by the first American to win the Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis, whose name is distressing because it’s somehow both two first names and two last names. I had only seen the movie of this and mostly remember the feeling of watching it rather than a lot of the details. The novel though is much more memorable and quite interesting, especially given where our country is today, and the fact that this novel is almost 100 years old. Elmer Gantry begins […]