The Man Who Knew Coolidge

"The Man Who Knew Coolidge" is a sharp-witted satirical novel by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. Composed as a series of monologues, the work features Lowell Schmaltz, a middle-class office supply salesman from the fictional city of Zenith who exemplifies the "Babbittry" Lewis famously critiqued in his earlier works. Schmaltz is a man of endless opinions and limited insight, whose primary claim to fame-his supposed friendship with President Calvin Coolidge-serves as the centerpiece for h...