The Great God Success

"The Great God Success: A Novel" by David Graham Phillips

David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist. In this book, he conducts social commentary on America and the future he predicted for the country through his characters. In this book, readers follow a young man at university. He has his whole life ahead of him, and he's determined to be successful. Through hard work and any other means he can muster, he makes his way to the top of the social ladder, but soon he's no longer the boy he used to know.