President Theodore Roosevelt absolutely hated Sinclair’s work and loyalty to socialism, calling him a “crackpot,” “hysterical, unbalanced, and untruthful,” but did agree that some, some of the ammunition behind “the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist” needed to be addressed. Reader, Roosevelt did not choose actual capitalism to address, nor the instances of police brutality or lack of healthcare access that so defined Jurgis’s struggle—he chose meatpacking plant conditions. This somewhat flippant decision directly led to three critical moves by the government
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