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Article: Sloan Wilson.(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2003
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Sloan Wilson, American novelist, died on May 25th, aged 83
IN HIS best-known novel, "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit", about company life, Sloan Wilson has his main character saying, and saying often, "The important thing is to make money." Well, why not? This was America, and money was needed to realise the American dream. Was this Sloan Wilson some kind of rebel questioning American values? Lots of people, the angry, the intrigued and the merely interested, bought the novel. At least 2m copies were sold. It was translated into 26 languages (Russian being an exception, the Soviet government assuming, incorrectly, that it was a paean to capitalism). The novel ...
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