![]() ![]() They were by no means all nice people there was always the leavening ofĪlice Adams' bootlegging brother, the nastiness of Mostly, though, he knew the Indiana middle class and he put them down, in his notablyĬareful and beautiful script, for future generations and for the world at large to Which fed the ebony glitter of the colored folks' main-stem, Indiana Progressively less impressive, and he knew what went on in the residential streets He did well, too, on the streets neighboring to Meridian and Thoroughfare, or, as in the case of the family of Alice Adams, He was at his best on North Meridian Street (his "NationalĪvenue") in Indianapolis, or with the people who had prospered to a chill eminence above that Tarkington's interest lay in the people whom he and most other Americans knew well. Of all writers Booth Tarkington most nearly interpreted theĪmerican scene from the beginning of this century through the Twenties as the ![]()
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