Sinclair Lewis world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring 20s.
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be invited to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis...