Second and Third Thoughts About the American Way of Business

 The Towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist;  austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.  They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings.

 

So opens  Sinclair Lewis' landmark novel Babbit.  Published nearly 100 years ago, Babbit stunned and thrilled the reading public with its starkly beautiful depiction of life in small-town America circa 1920.  As George F. Babbit navigates the vagaries of life and aspires to greatness at the expense of the truth, we see Everyman become revealed to the American and world public in a way gratifying to the public, if not to the American way of business itself. 

Perhaps you would like to read it along with me, as that same way of American business once again is being questioned more and more.