The Conquest of Canaan
By Booth Tarkington
22 Sep, 2019
With an intentional allusion to the Old Testament, this book takes you back to familiar Tarkington Hoosier territory. Like his earliest novel, The Gentleman from Indiana, we find the hero of the book as an outsider fighting the established municipal
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With an intentional allusion to the Old Testament, this book takes you back to familiar Tarkington Hoosier territory. Like his earliest novel, The Gentleman from Indiana, we find the hero of the book as an outsider fighting the established municipal machinery and managing ostracism from the highest strata of society. Less