Upton Sinclair






Upton Sinclair

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born
September 20, 1878

died
November 25, 1968

gender
male

place of birth
The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction


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Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views and supporting anarchist causes, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906.




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The Jungle: The Uncensored Ori... The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee (Goodreads author) (Foreword)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,763 ratings — published 1905
131 editions
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Oil! Oil!
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.58 — 729 ratings — published 1927
14 editions
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The Flivver King: A Story of F... The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.71 — 38 ratings — published 1937
7 editions
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The Millennium The Millennium
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.29 — 38 ratings — published 1924
3 editions
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King Coal King Coal
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.52 — 25 ratings — published 2007
7 editions
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Boston: A Documentary Novel of... Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 4.20 — 15 ratings — published 1974
4 editions
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The Moneychangers The Moneychangers
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.32 — 19 ratings — published 1919
14 editions
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World's End World's End
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2007
6 editions
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Dragon's Teeth I Dragon's Teeth I
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1942
7 editions
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I, Candidate for Governor: And... I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
by Upton Sinclair
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
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"They use everything about the hog except the squeal."
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
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"Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,--for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,--sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!"
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
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