[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=equalizer]
This may be my faux pas for mentionion it, but did you reveal your sympathies with proletariat class with Upton Sinclair/ Sinclair Lewis Freudian slip? So melancholy, can’t we get an Updike reference once?[/quote]

Equalizer: Excellent catch there, bub. Wow, my Freudian slip is showing, isn’t it?

I actually like both authors very much, and, speaking of religious hypocrisy and mass manipulation (a la Glenn Beck, though he’s fading fast, thank God), we should also mention “Elmer Gantry” as a must read. Excellent book (and a good movie, too, with Burt Lancaster) and just as relevant today.[/quote]
Haven’t read the book, but Lancaster was just amazing in the movie. Can’t believe it was published in 1927; doubt it would be published today.