Bøker av Upton Sinclair

A fictionalized account of an industrialist, shelved when first written around 1901-1902 because it seemed too radical, but more fitting after Steffens, Tarbell, and others had exposed corporate corruption. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, and juvenile book writer, whose works reflected the social problems of 19th Century industry. His two great boyhood heroes were Jesus Christ and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His novel Dragon's Teeth (1942) on the rise of Nazism won him the Pulitzer Prize. By the time Upton Sinclair died in November, 1968, he had published more than ninety books.

Presents an account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won journalist Upton Sinclair the governor's mansion. This title tells the story of Sinclair's campaign while also capturing the turbulent political mood of the 1930s.

Includes nine short works that reveal an author who wrestled with questions concerning women's independence and the state of the health care industry in America.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.

Presents a fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907. This book depicts the glittering society of New York's fabulously wealthy, for whom money is not the object of existence, just the means of wielding power.

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 Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Sinclair's investigation. This edition uses the most widely recognized text of 'The Jungle' and provides an illuminating supporting document: President Theodore Roosevelt's delivery to Congress of the official report that confirmed 'The Jungle's' shocking allegations about the Chicago meatpacking industry.

Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act.