Wilfred McClay: Elmer Gantry turns 80

You probably didn’t notice it, but that old rogue Elmer Gantry turned 80 this year. A surprising thought, perhaps, given what a fixture Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 fictional portrait of a bogus and amoral itinerant Midwestern preacher has become in both … Continue reading Wilfred McClay: Elmer Gantry turns 80