elmer gantry Author:sinclair lewis When Elmer Gantry was first published, it so outraged the country that it provoked, among other incidents, a personal invitation to its author for his own lynching. — In 1958, it is as powerful (and as shockingly truthful) as when it was first written. — The greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since ... more »Voltaire« less