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The jungle

A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug l...

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Main Author: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Other Authors: Spiegel, Maura.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Barnes & Noble Classics, c2003, 2004.
Subjects:
Lithuanian Americans > Fiction.
Working class > Fiction.
Stockyards > Fiction.
Immigrants > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Illinois > Fiction.
Political fiction > Illinois.
Summary: A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
Item Description: "Published in 2003 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired by, Comments & Questions, and for Further Reading. Hardcover edition published in 2004"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: xxv, 374 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: "For further reading": p. 373-374.
ISBN: 1593081642
9781593081645
Author Notes: Upton Sinclair, a lifelong vigorous socialist, first became well known with a powerful muckraking novel, The Jungle, in 1906. Refused by five publishers and finally published by Sinclair himself, it became an immediate bestseller, and inspired a government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, which led to much reform. In 1967 he was invited by President Lyndon Johnson to "witness the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which will gradually plug loopholes left by the first Federal meat inspection law" (N.Y. Times), a law Sinclair had helped to bring about. Newspapers, colleges, schools, churches, and industries have all been the subject of a Sinclair attack, analyzing and exposing their evils. Sinclair was not really a novelist, but a fearless and indefatigable journalist-crusader. All his early books are propaganda for his social reforms. When regular publishers boycotted his work, he published himself, usually at a financial loss. His 80 or so books have been translated into 47 languages, and his sales abroad, especially in the former Soviet Union, have been enormous.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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