Upton Sinclair - Böcker

best-seller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing...

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'A classic tale of greed and corruption' Erich Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Upton Sinclair's searing, prophetic indictment of fossil fuels, and the inspiration for the film There Will Be Blood Based on the oil scandals of t...

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Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices. Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory l...

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The narrative of a young immigrant's plight in America exposes the horrifying working conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry.

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Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed p...

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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people ...

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In this systematic critique of the structural basis of U.S. media -- arguably the first one ever published -- Upton Sinclair writes that "American journalism is a class institution serving the rich and spurning the poor." Likening journalists to p...

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Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which inspired the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of Twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher ...

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Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Jungle features the complete text of the first (1906) edition. An introduction by Kenneth W. Warren discusses the novel's biographical and historical contexts, its literary merits...

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"Upton Sinclair's novel follows the plight of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, and exposes the brutal exploitation and unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in early 20th-century industrial America"--

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This is an account of Sinclair's 1934 election campaign to become Governor of California. He planned to end the Depression in California by taking over idle land and factories and turning them into co-operative ventures for the unemployed.

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Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion. Using ...

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Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.Using h...

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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people ...

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In this powerful book we enter the world of  Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives  in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,  and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the  astoni...

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Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more devel...

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Best known for his muckraking expose of the squalor and brutality that pervaded the livestock industry in his book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's political activism was not limited to issues of workers' rights or workplace safety. These ni...

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Allan Montague, born on a Mississippi plantation 20 years prior to the Civil War, has grown up with slavery and considers it natural. When his father moves to Boston, Allan hears a speech which will cement his transformation into an abolitionist a...

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Sinclair wrote: "All art is propaganda..". "Who owns the artists?" Thus begins Sinclair's history of art, concluding that "the bulk of the successful artists of any time are men in harmony with the spirit of the time, and ...

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