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Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd #3)
Dragon's Teeth is the most celebrated novel of this Upton Sinclair series, as it won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943.
This book covers 1929-1934, with a special emphasis on the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s. It is the third of Upton Sinclair's World's End series of eleven novels about Lanny Budd, a socialist, art expert, and "red" son of an American arms m...more
This book covers 1929-1934, with a special emphasis on the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s. It is the third of Upton Sinclair's World's End series of eleven novels about Lanny Budd, a socialist, art expert, and "red" son of an American arms m...more
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(first published January 1st 1942)
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Dragon's Teeth was the 1942 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The novel is mainly set in Germany in the years before World War II. We get a glimpse of Nazi Germany as viewed by Lanny Bud who is a socialist and has a family member who married into a Jewish family. Lanny uses his influence to help free members of his half-sister's family from Germany and gets caught up in the power struggle within the Nazi party in the progress. A great look at the Nazi rise to power and how it affected...more
Pulitzer 1943 - This book is a real tough one for me to rate. I neither loved nor hated this book but never really got into it. When you read a book that you like you get into a rhythm with the author and their writing style. I never felt like I got into that rhythm with Sinclair. I found myself reading a couple of pages and then realizing I hadn't read them well.
The book takes place from 1929 to 1934 or so and really is about the rise of power in Germany of Hitler and the Third Reich. Hitler,...more
The book takes place from 1929 to 1934 or so and really is about the rise of power in Germany of Hitler and the Third Reich. Hitler,...more
Lanny Budd is such an interesting character because he is both
a) someone we all try to be: open-minded, a lover of artistic beauty over thuggish utilitarianism, and a man who is sociable to everyone--not allowing political opinions to ruin friendships.
and
b) a bon-ton mugwump
Maybe 7 or 8 times in the series thus far, Upton Sinclair has used a quote from a poem by Arthur Hugh Clough called From Spectator ab Extra to illustrate the theme of being open-minded during both World Wars. I end this revie...more
a) someone we all try to be: open-minded, a lover of artistic beauty over thuggish utilitarianism, and a man who is sociable to everyone--not allowing political opinions to ruin friendships.
and
b) a bon-ton mugwump
Maybe 7 or 8 times in the series thus far, Upton Sinclair has used a quote from a poem by Arthur Hugh Clough called From Spectator ab Extra to illustrate the theme of being open-minded during both World Wars. I end this revie...more
Dragon's Teeth
sucked me in from the first page and it was with great disappointment that it ended. The story is a fictional account of Hitler's rise to power and Sinclair did an impressive job of depicting the utter disbelief of the world. People simply couldn't believe the things they were hearing, because it didn't seem possible they could happen in a 'civilized' world. Of course, they did happen and eventually the characters were forced, in various ways, to come to grips with the reality...more
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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 publ...more
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