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Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...
...hopeless old-line parties and at the same time they fear socialism"). They reaffirmed Social Credit's basic tenet: periodic "dividend" payments for all citizens. They decided to enter candidates in all constituencies in the next Dominion election. Their new name: National Social Credit Association. Their new leader: Solon Earl...
...Sober Solon. Top Social Crediter for years was zealous, Bible-quoting William C. Aberhart. He rose to power in Alberta in 1935 by dazzling voters with promises (which he was unable to fulfill) of $25 a month apiece. Bill Aberhart died last year, but his Party still rules Alberta, has ten members in Ottawa's House of Commons. Out of these remnants, Solon Low must try to build a national political force...
...native Albertan, 44 years old, Solon Low neither drinks nor smokes. He first became interested in Social Credit's principle (artificial creation of purchasing power) when he was an economics student in crackpot-breeding Southern California. In 1935, he won a seat in Alberta's legislature as a Social Crediter. He became Provincial Treasurer in 1937. One of the least radical of Social Crediters, he has labored mightily, and in vain, to refund Alberta's $140,000,000 debt...
When his Pulitzer Prize was announced, the then Assistant Professor of History was relatively unknown. The authorship of his book, which developed a wide popular appeal, was attributed to Solon J. Buck, now National Archivist, and even to Pearl Buck. Among the notes of appreciation he received was one from Margaret Mitchell, whose novel of the horrors of the Reconstruction contrasted so sharply with Buck's objective study of the healing of the wounds...