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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. [1] In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in serial ...
The Goose-step: A Study of American Education is a book, published in 1923, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is an investigation into the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities. Sinclair writes, “Our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument ...
The campaign of the century: Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California and the birth of media politics (Random House, 1992). Rising, George G. "An EPIC Endeavor: Upton Sinclair's 1934 California Gubernatorial Campaign." Southern California Quarterly 79.1 (1997): 101–124. online
Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906, which revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States and was a major factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act. [28] Sinclair wrote the book with the intent of addressing unsafe working conditions in that industry, not food safety. [28]
The Brass Check is a muckraking exposé of American journalism by Upton Sinclair published in 1919. It focuses mainly on newspapers and the Associated Press wire service, along with a few magazines. Other critiques of the press had appeared, but Sinclair reached a wider audience with his personal fame and lively, provocative writing style. [1]
The campaign of the century: Upton Sinclair's race for governor of California and the birth of media politics (New York: Random House, 1992). Sinclair, Upton. The Literary Digest, October 13, 1934 End Poverty in California: The EPIC Movement; Sinclair, Upton. Gregory et al., eds. "Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California Campaign".
Lincoln Steffens is a somewhat frustrated witness to the political intrigue of the remapping of Europe following WW1 in the 1940 novel World's End by Upton Sinclair. [21] In World's End, Sinclair refers to Steffens as being a Muckraker. The same label has been assigned to Sinclair himself.