Sean Hannity’s America is Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross
BuffaloPundit (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
(Sinclair Lewis was dead-on)
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The History of ‘Main Street’
World Hum (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Linguist Geoff Numberg traces the roots of the phrase used so often these days to describe the effects of the country’s financial woes on everyday citizens. Among its influential early uses: as the title of a 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel .
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Thread: 740874780724180533. Post by Susan of Texas
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
That's right; if you read books from the twenties you can tell that mass consumerism was an issue then as well, and people were concerned about it. See everyone from Sinclair Lewis to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Thorne Smith. After 9/11 the President told everyone to go forth and spend. Alan Greenspan declared that the new debt vehicles were perfectly safe. Dick Cheney said that conservation was no...
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Public's Fury Noted, Now Is Time for Financial Rescue
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
His name was George F. Babbitt. He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. -- "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis (1922) WASHINGTON -- We are waist deep in evasions because one cannot talk sense about the cultural roots of the financial crisis without...
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I guess this is (roughly) how Sinclair Lewis thought fascism...
Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
...would come to America.
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Sarah Palin and John McCain
Doug's Dynamic Drivel (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Not much more needs to be said than When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. — Sinclair Lewis And it will be covered in lipstick and smelling like a rotten fish Technorati Tags: fascism, America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, Sinclair Lewis, lipstick, rotten fish, Sarah [...]
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sarah palin's proposed list of banned books
Change In Tallahassee (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis, 1935 Below is a list of the books Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla, Alaska Library. When I was in Anchorage two years ago, residents of Wasilla I met described the place as a growing, more-and-more suburban community north of Anchorage. In her speech, Palin called the area "the valley."...
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Last Night, In Nuremberg
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Watching the Republican convention is like something out of It Can’t Happen Here, the prescient novel by Sinclair Lewis, of how authoritarianism could come to this country in the name of “Americanism”. With Orson Swindle — truly a Sinclair-ish moniker – the exemplar of cornpone populism, leading off the festivities, what we saw was panoply [...]
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Elmer Gantry
cold fury (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
When I was in college I read Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry. It wasn’t required, I just read it. Elmer was an evangelical fire-and-brimstone preacher. Elmer preached all of the virtues, but never lived them. So it was a tale of hypocrisy. What are we to take from the novel? What I took was this: Elmer was [...]
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Tips lead to possible hit-run vehicle
Philadelphia Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Behind the blackened windows of a single-car garage in a quiet Upper Darby neighborhood, police yesterday discovered the vehicle that may have killed 16-year-old Faith Sinclair Lewis.
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Tips lead to possible hit-run vehicle
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Behind the blackened windows of a single-car garage in a quiet Upper Darby neighborhood, police yesterday discovered the vehicle that may have killed 16-year-old Faith Sinclair Lewis.
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Report: Ecco Pays the Guy From Aerosmith More Than $2 Million For Memoirs
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
No doubt riding high on the breakout success of David Wrobewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle , the Ecco Press appears to be on something of a spending spree! Matthew Flamm at Crain 's reports that Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith (not to be mistaken with Sinclair Lewis' similarly titled book ), has sold them the rights to his autobiography for more than $2 million. This news comes just...
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Rediscovery ...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... Ed Champion looks at The Novels of John P. Marquand . Edmund Wilson probably preferred Sinclair Lewis because Lewis was more obviously didactic than Marquand. Wilson seems not to have noticed that Marquand was by far the better writer. Of course, I happen to think that Wilson himself is over-rated.
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Best Beach Reads: 'Babbitt'
APM: Marketplace (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Commentator and economist Susan Lee kicks off our series on summer beach reads with Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt."
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Thread: 2556823096806791027. Post by The Dark Avenger
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
And as much as I like small towns and rurality, those are places for old people. The young suffer horribly out in bumfuck. Unless you've seen it first hand, you probably can't imagine. Hey, lots of Great American literature wouldn't been produced if writers like Clark Ashton Smith, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, hadn't been born and brought up in bumfuck, America.
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