Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.09.08 | 12:13 PM ET
Linguist Geoff Numberg traces the roots of the phrase used so often these days to describe the effects of the country’s financial woes on everyday citizens. Among its influential early uses: as the title of a 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel.
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Sophie 10.13.08 | 10:58 AM ET
I reread Lewis’ Main Street once a year. As a New Yorker moving to a flyover state many years ago, it was an attitude adjustment for me. It helped me get over myself and open my mind. (Carol comes looking nearly as foolish as her Gopher Prairie neighbors.)
The book is particularly relevant today, with our “regular” vs. “elitist” debates.