Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Harold Sinclair Lewis (1885-195 1) suffered a relatively awkward childhood. His mother died when "Harry" was five, and the orang...
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Biography EssayThe career of Sinclair Lewis is impressive in its presumption, range, and achievement. He undertook to reflect in his novels the distresses felt by a generation trying to find its way i...
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Although Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was the most celebrated American literary figure of the 1920s, his popular, mildly satirical novels today are valued mainly for their sociohistorical relevanc...
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The career of Sinclair Lewis is impressive in its presumption, range, and achievement. He undertook to reflect in his novels the distresses felt by a generation trying to find its way in a period of...
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The literary reputation of Sinclair Lewis rests on his best novels, which depict and often penetrate the confusion caused by America's change from a rural to an urban, industrial culture. Lewis's 12...
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In the business-centered city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt is, "to the eye, the perfect office-going executive": he is a successful and wealthy realtor, has a nice suburban house, and owns everything...
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Ten years after a landmark law was adopted to improve national wildlife refuges, the 96 million-acre system is neglected and undermined by political meddling and chronic underfunding, former Interi...
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Want to learn about American history? Take a boat ride in Boston Harbor _ and get ready to listen as well as look.
The "Birth of a Nation" cruise highlights the histori...
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said Wednesday that she'd do away with electing judges and make prosecutors and defense lawyers interchangeable as a way of improving the U.S. just...
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WHOLESALE: A part of doing business
Patriotism aside, the reality is that foreign nameplates have earned their place alongside the Big Three automakers in recent years. In fact, Consumer Re...
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Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2007. There are 187 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on June 27, 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurrica...
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Earlier snowmelts, longer summer droughts and bigger Western wildfires on federal lands are being caused more by "climatic conditions than land management techniques," government investigators conc...
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They helped make some of the best-loved songs in popular music with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley, but they were content to let the stars take the spotlight.But on Monda...
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh ra...
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More than at any time over the past 30 years, the future of capital punishment is in limbo.The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in a momentous lethal injection case. While it's widely ex...
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The New York Times has seen tomorrow, and it is Medicaid fraud and man dates! On July 6, Times managing editor Jill Abramson and associate managing editor Rick Berke convened a lunchtime gathering ...
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Babbitt
Harry Sinclair Lewis
(Harry) Sinclair Lewis
Within the Security of Conformity: Babbitt
Critics claim wildlife refuges neglected
