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George F. Babbitt is the perfect encapsulation of the myth of the self-made American man. As we all know, the American Dream only really applies to bullish, rule-breaking, money-obsessed, morally loose, emotionally shrunken borderline psychotics, and Babbitt meets these criteria and then some. This quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties is a rollicking powerhouse that exquisitely nails down the natty nuances of speech, the strange, affected cadences of the pep-powered peoples in a decade that set the blueprint for the rampage of cutthroat capitalism that followed. There are no shortage of satirical, excoriating novels exposing the hypocrisy of republican values and the essentially autocratic “democracy� of the States, but this rootin�-tootin� firebrand has to be among the funniest, most quotable, and most blistering.