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Sinclair Lewis’s “Babbitt,” published one hundred years ago this year, captured the complacency and conservatism of suburbia during the post–World War I boom in America.
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Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt Was the First Satire of Suburban America
One hundred years ago, Sinclair Lewis’s satirical novel Babbitt skewered 20th-century America’s booming midsize city and the complacency and conformity of its middle-class inhabitants.
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