The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

by Eugene McCarraher

From Oswald Spengler and Ortega y Gasset to T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and D. H. Lawrence, America was depicted as a land in thrall to what Kate Leslie, the protagonist of Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent (1926), called “the cult of the dollar.”