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If you have read it (or haven't read it lately), go find "Elmer Gantry". [View all]
Sinclair Lewis.
400+ pages, but worth it.
The anti-hero protagonist is TFG. (Spoiler alert: He gets away with everything.)
Don't bother with the Hollywood adaptation/movie. It's a hybrid of EG and Babbitt, both poorly adapted.
Read the book.
I actually talked to the book when I read it; I was that wrapped up in it.
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