American Businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people in the United States of America engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company.
The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad.
But former American intelligence officers with extensive experience in the Middle East say many Arab leaders have traditionally placed a high value on secret communications, though such informal arrangements are sometimes considered suspect in Washington.
American officials confirm that the meeting took place, but say that the Iraqi representative was not a current intelligence official and that the meeting was not productive.
Lewis's attack on small-town American life, expressed through the frustrations and eventual rebellion of Carol Kennicott in Gopher Prairie, establishes him as an iconoclastic voice of the era.
Considered by many Lewis's masterpiece, the novel is a satirical indictment of American provincialism through its portrayal of businessman and booster George Babbitt of Zenith, who desires "to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late," but eventually bows to his conventional, materialistic fate.
A twentieth-century American author known for using his novels to criticize aspects of American life, such as small-town narrowness, insincere preachers, and the discouragement of scientific curiosity.
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