A Harcourt Brace modern classic

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the power to think for oneself and contemplate.

Jack Burden, a young journalist, is asked by soon-to-be governor Willie Stark to uncover a scandal in Judge Irwin's past. Jack weighs the consequences.

George Babbit is a middle class American living in an average Midwestern city, in this satire of middle class life.