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Babbitt

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Babbitt

Satirical novel 1922 by Sinclair Lewis about a Midwestern businessman obsessed with commerce, clubs, and material values. ‘Babbittry’ came to mean a type of Middle American cultureless innocence.



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Louis Untermeyer, Theodore Tyler, Natalie Babbitt, Patricia McKissack and others all share the limelight with powerful creations kids will relish.
He cites the influence of the British statesman Edmund Burke and the American humanist educators Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More upon Kirk, and in doing so he demonstrates how Kirk's conservative philosophy was shaped.
And though some aspects of the book have not worn well--today's reader, well-versed in the ironies of American middle-class life, will likely find its depiction of Babbitt and his socioeconomic environs wooden and unconvincing--Lewis could not have chosen a better career to embody 1920s middle-class anxiety.
 
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