false<![CDATA[Oil!]]>5484715In <i>Oil!</i> Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.30017681927Oil!total:919|5:156|4:350|3:300|2:86|1:27|9193279211822243falsefalseFri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008Tue Mar 25 11:45:08 -0700 2008Tue Mar 25 11:46:15 -0700 2008 Oil!
Upton Sinclair
$15.00
560pp
Viking Penguin
ISBN-13: 9780143112266
Oil!
It seems like today, that every book published becomes a part of the New York Times Bestseller list. Sit down, write a short novel...more...]]>
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21falsefalseWed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Jan 04 11:18:46 -0800 2009Wed Mar 25 17:19:37 -0700 2009 Hay que reconocer que el trabajo documental que despliega Sinclair es de altura. La perforación de los poz...more...]]>
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While The Jungle is a very black-and-white view of the plight of the working man, Oil! makes an attempt to blur the l...more...]]>
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40falsefalseThu Jan 01 07:28:40 -0800 2009Tue Jan 27 03:50:45 -0800 2009 The scope of the novel is much bigger, but that's not the reason for its superiority. While his pol...more...]]>
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2009-07-06 -- Finished this over the weekend. First of...more...]]>
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Oil! is the story of an oil millionaire's son who discovers socialism; however, things happen to J. Arnold Ross, Jr., not because he does anything. There are, as far as I can tell, no consequences to young Mr. ...more...]]>
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There Will Be Blood. And so my temptation is to write about the book in relation to the movie. I am thwarted in this, however, by the simple fact that there is no relation between book and movie.