Upton Sinclair Books In Order

Annapolis Books In Publication Order

  1. Bound for Annapolis / The Trials of a Sailor Boy (1903)
  2. Clif, the Naval Cadet / Exciting Days at Annapolis (1903)

Lanny Budd Books In Publication Order

  1. World’s End (1940)
  2. Between Two Worlds (1941)
  3. Dragon’s Teeth I (1942)
  4. Wide is the Gate (1943)
  5. Presidential Agent (1944)
  6. Dragon Harvest (1945)
  7. A World to Win (1946)
  8. Presidential Mission (1947)
  9. One Clear Call (1948)
  10. O Shepherd, Speak! (1949)
  11. The Return of Lanny Budd (1953)

West Point Books In Publication Order

  1. Off for West Point (1903)
  2. A Cadet’s Honor (1903)
  3. On Guard (1903)
  4. A West Point Treasure (1903)
  5. The West Point Rivals (1903)

Lanny Budd Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Index to the Lanny Budd Story (2021)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. King Midas / Springtime and Harvest (1901)
  2. Prince Hagen (1903)
  3. Manassas / Theirs Be The Guilt (1904)
  4. A Captain Of Industry (1906)
  5. The Condemned Meat Industry (1906)
  6. Markets and Misery (1907)
  7. The Metropolis (1908)
  8. The Moneychangers (1908)
  9. Love’s Pilgrimage (1911)
  10. Damaged Goods (1913)
  11. Sylvia (1913)
  12. Sylvia’s Marriage (1914)
  13. King Coal (1917)
  14. The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1919)
  15. The Jungle (1919)
  16. The Overman (1919)
  17. Samuel the Seeker (1919)
  18. 100% (1920)
  19. The Spy (1921)
  20. The Book of Life (1922)
  21. They Call Me Carpenter (1922)
  22. The Millennium (1924)
  23. Oil! (1926)
  24. Mountain City (1930)
  25. Roman Holiday (1931)
  26. Jimmie Higgins (1933)
  27. The Lie Factory Starts (1934)
  28. Depression Island, (1935)
  29. Co-op (1936)
  30. The Gnomobile (1936)
  31. William Fox (1936)
  32. Our Lady (1937)
  33. Little Steel (1946)
  34. Mellem To Verdener (1947)
  35. Limbo on the Loose (1948)
  36. Another Pamela (1950)
  37. Enemy in the Mouth (1954)
  38. What Didymus Did (1954)
  39. The Cup of Fury (1956)
  40. Affectionately Eve (1961)
  41. Boston (1965)
  42. The Flivver King (1971)
  43. The Coal War (1976)
  44. The Pot Boiler (2003)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Plays of Protest (2015)

Standalone Plays In Publication Order

  1. Hell (1923)
  2. Marie Antoinette (1939)
  3. Enemy Had It Too (1950)
  4. The Machine (2004)
  5. The Naturewoman (2014)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Profits of Religion (1900)
  2. Good Health and How We Won It (1909)
  3. The Fasting Cure (1911)
  4. The Sinclair-Astor Letters (1914)
  5. The High Cost of Living (1919)
  6. The Industrial Republic (1919)
  7. Russia: a Challenge (1919)
  8. Socialism and How It is Coming (1920)
  9. The Goose Step (1922)
  10. The Goslings (1924)
  11. Letters to Judd: An American Workingman (1926)
  12. The Spokesman’s Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame To Mom (1926)
  13. Money Writes (1927)
  14. The Crimes of the Times: A Test of Newspaper Decency (1929)
  15. Mental Radio (1929)
  16. Upton Sinclair on Comrade Kautsky (1931)
  17. Upton Sinclair, Station A (1931)
  18. American Outpost; A Book Of Reminiscences (1932)
  19. Candid Reminiscences: My First 30 Years (1932)
  20. I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty (1933)
  21. The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America (1933)
  22. The Epic Plan for California (1934)
  23. Upton Sinclair’s Last Will and Testament (1934)
  24. Immediate EPIC (1934)
  25. Epic Answers (1935)
  26. I, Candidate for Governor (1935)
  27. Wally For Queen (1936)
  28. We, People of America (1936)
  29. No Pasaran! (1937)
  30. Letters to a Millionaire (1938)
  31. Terror in Russia? (1938)
  32. What Can Be Done About America’s Economic Troubles? (1939)
  33. Your Million Dollars (1939)
  34. Peace or War in America (1941)
  35. To the Conquered Peoples of Europe (1941)
  36. To Solve the German Problem (1943)
  37. This World of 1949 and What to Do About It (1948)
  38. A Personal Jesus (1954)
  39. Spirits in American Literature (1955)
  40. My Lifetime in Letters (1960)
  41. The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962)
  42. The Secret Life of Jesus (1962)
  43. The Brass Check (1970)
  44. Biographical and Critical Opinions (1973)
  45. Mammonart (1975)
  46. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (1976)
  47. Upton Sinclair: Four Unpublished Letters (1984)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Cry for Justice (1915)

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Upton Sinclair Books Overview

Dragon’s Teeth I

‘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 Na*zi takeover of Germany in the 1930s. The Night of the Long Knives German: Nacht der langen Messer help info or ‘Operation Hummingbird’, or, more commonly used in Germany ‘R hm Putsch’ was a purge that took place in Na*zi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Na*zi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung SA, the paramilitary Brownshirts. Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst R hm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his power. He also wanted to conciliate leaders of the Reichswehr, the official German military who both feared and despised the SA in particular R hm’s ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership. Finally, Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his regime, especially those loyal to Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, and to settle scores with old enemies. At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, 2 3 and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested. 2 Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel SS and the Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei, the regime’s secret police. The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the Reichswehr for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Na*zi regime, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. Before its execution, its planners sometimes referred to it as ‘Hummingbird’ German: Kolibri, as that was the codeword used to set the execution squads in motion on the day of the purge. 4 The codename for the operation appears to have been chosen arbitrarily. The phrase ‘Night of the Long Knives’ in the German language predates the massacre itself, and it also refers generally to acts of vengeance. To this day, Germans still use the term ‘R hm Putsch’ ‘R hm coup d tat’ to describe the event, as that was the term the Na*zi regime used at the time, despite its overall false implication that the murders were necessary to forestall a coup. To emphasise this, German authors often use quotation marks or write about the so called R hm Putsch. 5 The novel Dragon’s Teeth, written in 1942 by Upton Sinclair, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943. Set in the period 1929 to 1934, it covers the Na*zi takeover of Germany during 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 manufacturer. Back of the novel : In the first book/volume of the series Lanny Budd had met a family of Dutch Jews. By the time this book/volume happens his half sister has married one of their sons. In the climax at the end of this volume Lanny involves himself in springing the other son from Na*zi arrest/jail, and gets caught up in the Blood Purge on June 30, 1934/July 2, 1934.

Wide is the Gate

Wide is the Gate, written in 1943, is the fourth of the epic eleven part classic Lanny Budd Series written by Upton Sinclair. Wide is the Gate followed the 1943 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dragon’s Teeth. This book covers the period of 1934-1937 and introduces Lanny as a secret double agent fighting the Na*zi’s as a supporter of the resistance movement in Germany. Lanny is living primarily in England with his wife of almost five years, Irma Barnes, the 23 million dollar heiress. Irma does not share Lanny’s ‘red’ view of the world. Lanny’s is conflicted continuously in his heart and soul for the workers and social justice. Lanny attempts to commit to Irma to ‘behave’ himself and lead a normal aristocratic life. But foremost he is committed to ending Na*zism, Fascism and the over throw of the democratically elected Spanish government. Irma believes she is entitled to live in the style of the aristocrats of Europe, she having inherited 23 million dollars from her late father, J. Paramount Barnes. She cares not at all for anything Lanny believes in. Lanny is awakened at the end of Dragon’s Teeth to the oncoming dangers of the Na*zi’s. He sees the armament build-up and the militarism building in the Fatherland. Goring is not to be trusted. But both English and French leaders fail to recognize the menacing threat of the new Germany. Leading politician believe the threat of the Bolsheviks and the Red Menace poses a greater threat to European stability, aka, the ruling clas*ses, than do the Na*zi’s in Germany, and the Fascist in Italy and Spain. Lanny involves himself in a double agent role by helping a new friend, one who will be us through the remaining books, Monck. Monck is a German socialist who is part of the underground and works with the resistance movement to alert the German people to the terrors of the Na*zi’s. Lanny helps a friend and colleague of the late Fredi Robin, Trudi, through which he meets Monck. Many adventures and dangers present themselves as Lanny travels back into Germany as an Art expert, eventually dealing directly and on a friendship basis with Hermann Goring. He uses the proceeds of the confiscated artwork masterpieces stolen by Goring from Johannes Robin to help finance and support the underground movement from inside the heart of Na*ziland. Lanny and Irma also have an eventful evening with Hitler, while hiding a hunted resistance worker in their car while visiting Hitler’s Berghof estate. Robbie Budd, Lanny’s father, has conceived the next great industrial advancement on a grand scale, the airplane. Having lost Budd Gunmakers to the Wall Street tycoons, Robbie sets out to develop the mass production of airplanes. He offers first to England, and then to France, the opportunity to build their air forces as protection in case of another armed conflict, but facing the intransigence of both countries politicians, he next offers his new high speed and potentially deadly product to Goring and they thus become close business associates. This alliance between Robbie and Goring offers Lanny cover for his duplicitous activities against the Na*zi’s. As alluded to at the end of Dragon’s Teeth, Lan

Presidential Mission

Presidential Mission is the eighth book in the epic World’s End Lanny Budd series written by Upton Sinclair in 1947. This thrilling book covers the period of history between 1942 and 1943. The reader has read of the many adventures of Lanny Budd, world citizen extraordinary, who has used his art expertise and Fascist and Na*zi sympathies as camouflage for his work as Presidential Agent 103 for President Roosevelt since 1938. The beginning of the end of Na*zism and Fascism has begun with the weight of the United States military entering the World War at the end of 1941. Now as US troops, planes, ships and political will escalates, particularly in North Africa, Lanny is sent by FDR to Algiers in advance of the American and British African invasion with an ingenious plan to fool the German High Command as to where the United States will strike first. The Allies are preparing for the massive invasion of Germany across the English Channel Lanny is sent to Algiers to convince the French to stand together as the Allies prepare for the North African. This is no small task. France is half controlled by Na*zi Germany and the rest under semi German control under the Vichy Government. The large industrialist and bankers want to make peace with Germany so that they can continue to control the economy and their way of life, while the underground, the liberals, socialists and workers in general want a free democratically run government, if not a socialist one. There is an interesting interview Lanny has with the devilish Juan March, the financier of Franco and his gangsters who have taken control of the previously democratically elected Spanish government. As a Na*zi sympathizer he attempts to get Lanny to convince FRD and Churchill that a truce with Germany would be the best for Europe and the United States. All that Hitler wants is to end the ‘Red Menace’ Russia and maintain the countries which he has already seized and the British Empire can remain as is. The United States can have Central and South America as well as Japan. This type of intrigue is prevalent throughout the entire book The ultra rich aristocrats who simply want to retain their money and power and keep the unions and workers down. Does this sound eerily familiar? Lanny is instructed by FDR to visit General Stalin to enlist the Russians as allies in the war against the Na*zi’s and Fascists. In one of the most spectacular of Lanny’s adventures, he must parachute from a damaged airplane taking him to Moscow into the Sahara desert. For Lanny this is the most danger he has ever been in. He nearly dies of thirst until rescued by a caravan of Arab camel drivers. He is then forced back into Germany as the caravan approaches a German road block. In Germany Lanny plays his usual role with Hitler and the Na*zi’s. By now Hitler has made his fatal decision to make war on two fronts, against Britain and now his former ally, Stalin and the Russians. In an amusing scene, Lanny having visited Hess in his prison cell and having asked Hess for something to prove that he has met Hess, is given Hess’s wedding band given to Hess by Hitler that is specifically engraved. This piece of jewelry is priceless to Lanny’s work for FDR as he attempts to gather information as to how far along the Germans scientists are with atomic fission and heavy water and jet propulsion. All of this intrigue goes on as Berlin is incessantly bombed, If the reader wishes to fully appreciate this great historical narrative I strongly encourage the reader to begin with World’s End and read the series in the order in which Upton painstakingly and meticulously wrote the eleven books. There are only three books left after Presidential Mission and you will hardly be able to wait to read them. Please visit our website coming soon at: www. uptonsinclair lannybudd completehardboundseries. com. There you can order any or all of the Lanny Budd series books at 20 , 25 and 30 off with free shipping.

The Return of Lanny Budd

The Return of Lanny Budd is the eleventh and final book in the enormous epic Lanny Budd World’s End series written by Pulitzer Prize Winner and legend, Upton Sinclair. Written in 1953 at the pinnacle of the Cold War, this story covers the period between 1946 and 1949. Post World War Two, Lanny comes out of retirement as a Presidential Agent to assist the United States as the Russian menace grows. For all readers who have reviled in Lanny’s numerous adventures, travels and conversations with the leading politicians, industrialists, financial powers and military leaders you will surely enjoy this, the final book, in Upton’s great historical narrative that began when Lanny was 13 years old and just prior to the beginning of World War One. As the story begins, Lanny is running his Radio Peace Program with his wife Laurel Creston, Rick, Nina, Lanny’s daughter Frances and Rick and Nina’s son Scrubbie with the help of thousands of volunteers, all from an old abandoned refurbished factory in New Jersey. Lanny is recruited into the Secret Service, which has responsibility for the Treasury Department, to help end Na*zi gangs who are counterfeiting Allied currency in Germany. Remnants of the Na*zi regime have stolen plates to print US and other Allied currency and have hidden millions of dollars in gold whisked away prior to the end of the War. Lanny’s boyhood friend and the famous German Komponist, Kurt Meissner is one of the ring leaders in this conspiracy. He is eventually taken prisoner by the Allies controlling the Western Sector of Berlin. He promises to cooperate and end his participation in the conspiracy headed by Neo Na*zi’s to protect his family and return to his music endeavors. The suspense builds as Lanny leads a group trying to capture the printing plates and discover where the gold is hidden. The ending will surprise even the most intuitive reader. While on this mission Lanny is shocked by what he sees in Russian controlled parts of Europe. He questions his own ideas as to the preaching of peace vis vis arming against yet another tyranny already on the march towards world domination. In Stalin, Lanny sees a tyrant much like Hitler, Goring and the other Na*zi’s. Selling the socialism Lanny believes in, while building a military juggernaut and murdering and imprisoning all opposition. Lanny brings his Radio Peace effort to Germany and works with the forerunner to the Voice of America Radio program. His radio work is an effort to promote peace and understanding for the German people whom Lanny has loved since boyhood. He is finally recognized and then targeted by the Russian KGB and is kidnapped and taken to East Berlin. Lanny is subjected to torture for purporting conspiring to assassinate Marshall Stalin. The week of the torture is suspenseful and the efforts to find and liberate him are as exciting as any previous adventure. Lanny is horrified to learn that his half sister, Bess, a lifelong Communist, is being watched by the FBI, suspected of transmitting secret material to Russians agents. Hansi, agonized by this development, decides to finally break with Bess, but cooperates with the FBI by pretending to be a communist himself. This part of the story by itself would be worthy of a full book but the espionage and counterespionage in the Hansibess family is supplementary tot the larger story of events in Europe. In an extraordinary story, Lanny is able to foil his interrogators by suggesting that Bess is in fact a counterespionage agent for the United States. The reader will appreciate the ingenuity Lanny uses to persuade Bess of the evils of communism after his escape. Please visit our website coming soon at: www. uptonsinclair lannybudd completehardboundseries. com. There you can order any or all of the Lanny Budd series books at 20 , 25 and 30 off with free shipping.

King Midas / Springtime and Harvest

Arthur was an orphan raised by Reverend Davis and the moment he came of age, he began working at repaying that man for his kindness. Arthur is in love, and has always been in love with, Helen, the Reverend’s daughter. When Helen is sent away to travel the world, Arthur is devastated. But instead of moping about, he does his best to be the best that he can. He wins scholarships attends college. Then Helen returns, but she is not the same woman that left Arthur three years ago. She’s older and more sophisticated. Arthur remains nothing more than a talented poet, something to be appreciated, but not loved. Can Arthur win Helen’s heart as a mere poet? Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and a notorious muckraker. He is known for writing The Jungle a book about the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. The reforms that the book suggested did not go into immediate effect, but the national outcry resulted in President Theodore Roosevelt’s creation of the Pure food and Drug Law. /King Midas was originally published as Springtime and Harvest and is the first of Upton Sinclair’s published works.

Prince Hagen

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

Manassas / Theirs Be The Guilt

MANASSAS CHAPTER I The house stood upon a gentle slope, from which you might look down a broad, sandy avenue into the forests which lined the creek. Two storied, with double porticos upon three sides and great white pillars about which a man’s arms would scarcely go, it was hidden in a grove of pecans and magnolias which had the depth and stillness of cathedral archways. The ground beneath was soft and glossy, and one wondered if the deep, rich green had ever been trod by a foot. It was March, and Southern springtime. The great magnolias, some of them a hundred feet high, were in the full tide of their splendor, their crisp, polished leaves scarcely visible for the snow white flowers which covered them. Here and there about the lawn were rose trees of twice a man’s height, flashing like beacons with their weight of cloth of gold roses a span across, crimson and orange, and with petals soft and heavy as velvet. About the lawn were scattered banana and fig trees, pomegranates, chinaAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www. forgottenbooks. org

A Captain Of Industry

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The Metropolis

In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City’s high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a richly detailed portrait of the wealthy elite of The Metropolis. Allan Montague, a lawyer of thirty, moves to New York City from Mississippi, along with his mother and cousin Alice, to join his younger brother Oliver, who had taken up residence there several years before. The newcomers soon discover that Oliver has become a highly networked member of a fast paced social circuit comprising some of the most powerful members of the business class. Oliver wastes no time in introducing Allan and Alice into this exclusive group in the hope that they will all prosper through their connections. Sinclair devotes much of the novel to depictions of the profligate and jaded party life of the very rich, who spend vast sums of money on entertainment and new toys to relieve their boredom. Expensive cars still a novelty at this time, lavishly furnished limousines and private trains, sumptuous dinners attended by liveried servants, tailor made clothing costing thousands of dollars are described with meticulous attention to the enormous cost of it all. Sinclair also spares no detail in describing the rampant alcoholism, marital affairs, malicious gossip, backstabbing, and shallow values of this set. When Allan agrees to represent a wealthy client in a suit against powerful insurance interests, he becomes caught in a web of influence and secret dealings that threaten his recently established social standing and the wellbeing of his whole family. This early 20th century version of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with a cynical edge and a socialist reformer’s perspective provides a fascinating glimpse into the elite social life of the very wealthy of New York before the Great Depression.

The Moneychangers

Upton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize for his notorious 1906 novel The Jungle, a fictionalized account of the barbaric conditions of the men and women who worked in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. And just as the horrific circumstances he exposed in that book more than a century ago appear to be recurring in our fast food nation, so do those he highlights in his 1908 novel, the cautionary tale The Moneychangers. First published in 1908, this is the story of a small band of Wall Street players who plot to outmaneuver their rivals via financial schemes that sound all too familiar in today’s chaotic economic environment: shell companies and creative accounting lure unwitting investors to prop up secretly bankrupt corporations, prompting a stock market crash, a bank run, and a dramatic rise in unemployment. As with The Jungle, this is based on real events the Wall Street crash of 1907 and reads as startlingly prescient today, as the very crimes Sinclair strove to highlight plague society once again. American writer UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR 1878 1968 was an active socialist and contributor to many socialist publications. His muckraking books include King Coal 1917, Oil! 1927, and Boston 1928.

Love’s Pilgrimage

George Middleton, who reviewed this book for The Bookman back in the day, was quite unkind to this tale of a love that dare not speak its name. ‘Mr. Sinclair has written one of the frankest books in English;’ he wrote, ‘we wonder, in this connection, if that was his main intention, whether in some slight justification of the severe criticism he will no doubt receive, he has entirely forgotten Mrs. Gilchrist’s letter to Rossetti on receiving a copy of Walt Whitman: ‘…
as for what you specially allude to, who so well able to bear it I will say, to judge wisely of it as one who, having been a happy wife and mother, has learned to accept with tenderness, to feel a sacredness in all the fact of nature? But perhaps Walt Whitman has forgotten or, through some theory in his head has overridden the truth that our instincts are beautiful facts of nature, as well as our bodies, and that we have a strong instinct of silence about some things.” Was he right? We say you ought to decide that for yourself: The author of The Jungle certainly had a thing or two to say.

Damaged Goods

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

Sylvia

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Sylvia’s Marriage

Upton Sinclair was a prolific novelist, producing over 90 books in many genres. His book The Jungle, depicting conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry, was a national sensation, and led to the eventual creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Sinclair was an ardent Socialist, and ran for Congress on a socialist platform. His novel Dragion’s Teeth, about the rise of the Na*zi Party, won the Pulitzer Prize. Sylvia’s Marriage, published in 1914, deals with the marriage of Southern socialite Sylvia Castleman, told from the viewpoint of her friend Mary Abbot. As Mary puts it, ‘I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self made woman.’ While coming from different backgrounds and clas*ses, both women share the experience of marrying the wrong man, and Sylvia must deal with the consequences of her husband’s pre marital escapades. A critic termed it ‘A novel that frankly is devoted to the illustration of the dangers that society runs through the marriage of unsound men with unsuspecting women.’

King Coal

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: was introduced, and it quickly became clear to Hal that hero was the man he was looking for. Keating knew exactly what questions to ask, and had the whole story in a few minutes. ‘By thunderI’ he cried. ‘My last edition I ‘ And he pulled out his watch, and sprang to the telephone. ‘ Long distance,’ he called; then, ‘ 1 want the city editor of the Western City Gazette. And, operator, please see if you can’t rash it through. It’s very urgent, and last time I had to wait nearly half an hour.’ He turned back to Hal, and proceeded to ask more questions, at the same time pulling a bunch of copy paper from his pocket and making notes. He got all Hal’s statements about the lack of sprinkling, the absence of escape ways, the delay in starting the fan, the concealing of the number of men in the mine. ‘ I knew things were crooked up there I ‘ he exclaimed. ‘ But I couldn’t get a lead I They kept a man with me every minute of the time. You know a fellow named Predovich? ‘ ‘ I do,’ said Hal. ‘ The company store clerk; he once went through my pockets.’ Keating made a face of disgust. ‘ Well, he was my chaperon. Imagine trying to get the miners to talk to you with that sneak at your heels I 1 said to the superintendent, ‘ I don’t need anybody to escort me around your place.’ And he looked at me with a nasty little smile. ‘ We wouldn’t want anything to happen to you while you’re in this camp, Mr. Keating.’ ‘ You don’t consider it necessary to protect the lives of the other reporters,’ I said. ‘No,’ said he; ‘but the Gazette has made a great many enemies, you know.’ ‘ Drop your fooling, Mr. Cart wright,’ I said. ‘ You propose to have me shadowed while I’m working on this assignment ?’ ‘ You can put it that way,’ he answered, ‘ if you think it’ll please the readers of the Gazette.”…

The Journal of Arthur Stirling

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

The Jungle

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Upton Sinclair’s muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con men, and corrupt politicians. While Sinclair s main target was the industry s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. At the time of The Jungle s publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was Uncle Tom s Cabin. Today, The Jungle remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges. Maura Spiegel teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History. She coedits Literature and Medicine, a journal.

Samuel the Seeker

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

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From the book which will give you an insight to the total content of this political novel. ‘Also he had a bit of genuine anxiety. He told the truth when he said to Guggy that he didn’t know what a ‘Red’ was but since then he had been making inquires and now he knew. A RED was a fellow who sympathized with labor unions and strikes; who wanted to murder the rich and divide their property and believed the quickest way to do the dividing was by means of dynamite. All REDS made bombs and carried concealed weapons and perhaps secret poisons who could tell’. Be prepared for an enlightening venture of into the world of radical politics as seen thru Upton Sinclair’s incredible imagination. Trying to undo the everyman’s view. A perspective and view that the ruling class wishes to continue to take into the reality of the working class and the labor movement and those who struggle for economic justice. The is a novel that will not fail the reader who wishes to understand modern propaganda by the shrinking, but still powerful establishment and their lackeys. It all continues to this day but now there are no names, no easily remembered logos, no local following, no telephones that have real people answering all just meaningless fronts and shell corporations located on some tiny island offshore. And so it goes until the bulkhead of economic justice blows sky high. A Collector’s Edition.

The Book of Life

1921. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair’s book of practical counsel discussing the conduct of life from modern standards. What do present day men and women need to know in order to live wisely? What are the paths to happiness, the laws of health both of mind and body? These questions are here discussed in simple language and a spirit of good fellowship. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

They Call Me Carpenter

Now, as a matter of fact, we had at that time several millions of people out of work in America, and many of them starving. There must be some intellectuals among them, I suggested; and the critic replied: ‘They must have starved for so long that they have got used to it, and can enjoy it or at any rate can enjoy turning it into art. Is not that the final test of great art, that it has been smelted in the fires of suffering? All the great spiritual movements of humanity began in that way; take primitive Christianity, for example. But you Americans have taken Christ, the carpenter ‘ I laughed. It happened that at this moment we were passing St. Bartholomew’s Church, a great brown stone structure standing at the corner of the park. I waved my hand towards it. ‘In there,’ I said, ‘over the altar, you may see Christ, the carpenter, dressed up in exquisite robes of white and amethyst, set up as a stained glass window ornament. But if you’ll stop and think, you’ll realize it wasn’t we Americans who began that!’ ‘No,’ said the other, returning my laugh, ‘but I think it was you who finished him up as a symbol of elegance, a divinity of the respectable inane.’ Thus chatting, we turned the corner, and came in sight of our goal, the Excelsior Theater. And there was the mob! At first, when I saw the mass of people, I thought it was the usual picture crowd. I said, with a smile, ‘Can it be that the American people are not so dead to art after all?’ But then I observed that the crowd seemed to be swaying this way and that; also there seemed to be a great many men in army uniforms. ‘Hello!’ I exclaimed. ‘A row?’ There was a clamor of shouting; the army men seemed to be pulling and pushing the civilians. When we got nearer, I asked of a bystander, ‘What’s up?’ The answer was: ‘They don’t want ’em to go in to see the picture.’

The Millennium

In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half mile high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes killing everybody throughout the world except eleven of the people at the Pleasure Palace. They escape the deadly rays by flying high in the sky in a revolutionary 1000 mph airplane called ‘The Monarch of the Air!’ The fortunate eleven survivors struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a capitalistic society. After that fails, along with several other inept efforts, they create a successful utopian society on the lush grounds of a grand country estate in the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River. Sinclair’s life long vision, ‘The Cooperative Commonwealth,’ reigns happily forever after, in this classic of the literature of political imagination.

Oil!

This novel originates from the ‘Teapot Dome’ oil scandal of President Warren Harding as oil barons bribe politicians. It is about greed and the oil boom of Southern California in the 1920’s. It is wrapped up in evangelic crusades by shifty preachers and leftist labor activists. ‘Oil’ is a provoking novel as a man and his son plunge into the oil drilling business and all that they do and what is around them. Bunny the son becomes a ‘red millionaire’ and is a radical strike leader. The 2007 highly acclaimed movie ‘There Will Be Blood’ directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and staring Daniel Day Lewis is an adaptation of Sinclair’s Oil! Read this novel and then see the movie. A Collector’s EDition.

Jimmie Higgins

Upton Sinclair is one of America’s best known novelists, the author of The Jungle, the notorious 1906 ‘muckracking’ novel of social realism. While most people credit The Jungle for exposing the horrible, unsanitary practices of America’s meat packing industry at the turn of the 19th century, the story spends far more time on the slum conditions and employer abuses heaped upon the immigrants who worked in the slaughterhouses and packing houses at that time. Sinclair wrote Jimmie Higgins in response to the First World War. He broke with the main body of the American Socialist Party at that time, favoring U.S. involvement in WWI, because of the threat of German militarism. After the war, however, he opposed any interference to the developing Bolshevik regime in Moscow. The title character of Jimmie Higgins enlists in the army and fights bravely, but is tortured into madness following the war, for espousing the same policies as did Sinclair himself. Upton Sinclair was one of America’s most prolific writers by the time of his death in 1968, he had written and published millions of words, and dozens of books. Although some readers feel that the character of Jimmie Higgins is not one of Sinclair’s more convincing portrayals, the story of a war protestor and hero remains relevant today.

William Fox

UPTON SINCLAIR PRESENTS William Fox by UPTON SINCLAIR originally published in 1933. In Tu entytiine Reels with Prologue and Epilogue A Melodrama of Fortune Conflict and Triumph, Packed with ThriOb and Heart Throbs East Side Boy Conquers Fame and Power. The Masters of Millions Envy His Triumph and Hot His Downfall. The Octopus Battles the Fox The Ehid of a Century The Sensation of a Lifetime Never in Screen History has there been a Feature so Stupendous as this. An Inside Story a Firsthand Revelation of Politics and Finance, with a Ten Billion Dollar Cast of Statesmen and Financiers. At the same time a Story for the Family, tense and moving, with Love, loyalty and a womans soul. A Romance so fine, so true, so loaded with laughter and tears that none can resist it FLOYD DELL REPORTS TO A NEW YORK PUBLISHER. I think this is a very important book. First, because it tells what a man important to his times thinks about himself. Second, because of the importance of the war between the financiers and the organizers in this motion picture field. Third, because of the immense human interest and enthralling excitement of the story. There has never been a book on this subject so completely readable by ordinary people. I myself am bored with statistics, I dont like business stories, and I started this book with no hope of ever being able to read it through. It kept me awake all night I could not stop reading it. The story has terrific interest and suspense. Also it hits the public interest of the times right in the center. It will be in every middle class home this winter, and millions of people will be talking about it. It is going to be one of the great literary sensations in the history of American publishing. Upton Sinclairs reputation has survived every exposes he has handled, and no one has ever sued him for libel, He has the goods on people and they know it. There can be no question but that the facts are substantially as the book states them, for these are all matters of court record. The interpretations alone can be questioned. I should say that the only reason for not taking advantage of the greatest opportunity of our times in publishing would be a belief in the actuality of this alleged criminal conspiracy, and the fear that the conspiracy would extend to the point of a criminal attempt to punish and wreck the publisher who put Foxs case before the public. Or have the bankers burned their fingers enough in this Fox business without attempting illegitimate inter ference In the end it would be useless, for the book will be published and they cant stop it This is the most exciting book I have read for years It adds a new and significant figure to American industrial biography. It is destined to an immense popularity, and it will make Uptom Sinclair the most widely read author in America, It will be in front page headlines, and a Congressional inquiry may keep It there for weeks or months. The films are dear to the heart of America. Contents include: PROLOGUE…


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46 REEL SIX Over the Hill…
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Our Lady

Our Lady.’ The book which Upton Sinclair says:’There is a saying that every author has one book which he especially loves, and ‘Our Lady‘ is mine! This is a deeper and kindlier Sinclair than you ever have known. ‘Our Lady‘ will haunt you just as it did its author. You will read ‘Our Lady‘ not once but many times, and you will concur with Mr Sinclair and the critics of the 30’s and 40’s, that it is the finest book ever done by Upton. A parable for moderns, it yet has all of the speed and suspense of a closely knit novel. This book has never been reprinted since it was published over 65 years ago and was a rare book before a copy was found. A Collector’s Edition!

Boston

The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it is the ‘case that would not die.’ Surprisingly, of all the books that have appeared over the years concerning the case, the most complete and convincing was first published in 1928, only a year after the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. That book is Upton Sinclair’s Boston. In his ‘documentary novel’ the celebrated author of The Jungle combined a firm grasp of the facts of the case with an engrossing fictional framework to produce a remarkably accurate and comprehensive report of the events that spanned the years 1919 to 1927 which ultimately focused the attention of the whole world on a drama played out in the drawing rooms, courts, and streets of the city of Boston. In Boston, Sinclair described the xenophobia and paranoia that led the upper crust of Boston society to see these two illiterate immigrants as a threat to their way of life, and led to their conviction on the flimsiest of evidence. Sinclair used his considerable skills to arouse the reader to a state of outrage as the protagonists’ inevitable fate approaches.

The Flivver King

The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two stories those of Henry Ford and Ford worker Abner Shutt, unfold side by side, indeed dialectically. They are, in the end, one story: the saga of class and culture in ‘Ford America’. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high society parties, unions and anti union gun thugs few aspects of American life in the first four decades of the last century are missing from this small masterpiece. The Flivver King sustains the same sure grasp of working class life which characterized Sinclair’s earlier classic, The Jungle, but much less sentimentally and with a steadier focus on how alienated work breeds not only degradation but also resistance and revolt. Originally written in 1937 to aid the United Automobile Workers’ organizing drive, The Flivver King answers the question ‘Why do we need a union?’ with quiet eloquence. Kerr have reissued it as a great American novel and an important historical document, but most of all because that question has never gone away and is now more vital than ever. With an introduction from Steve Meyer.

The Pot Boiler

Will wildly. Why do we have to start that now? I want to finish the play! Drags her to work table. Come! Sit down here and let’s get busy! Right off! Not another word! They sit side by side. I’ve a scene here with Bill. I want to know what you think of it. Lights begin to rise on Play play. Bill comes to see Belle.

Plays of Protest

Four plays: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second Story Man, and Prince Hagen. Upton Sinclair 1878 1968 was a prolific American novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, and juvenile book writer, whose works reflected the social problems of 19th Century industry. His two great boyhood heroes were Jesus Christ and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His novel ‘Dragon’s Teeth’ 1942 on the rise of Na*zism won him the Pulitzer Prize. By the time Upton Sinclair died in November, 1968, he had published more than ninety books.

The Machine

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

The Naturewoman

Upton Sinclair Jr. 1878 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 1906 novel The Jungle, 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. An early success was the Civil War novel Manassas, written in 1903 and published a year later. Originally projected as the opening book of a trilogy, the success of The Jungle caused him to drop his plans. Sinclair created a socialist commune, named Helicon Hall Colony, in 1906 with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.

The Profits of Religion

It is not too much to say that today no daily newspaper in any large American city dares to attack the emoluments of the Catholic Church, or to advocate restrictions upon the ecclesiastical machine. from ‘Holy History’ Few readers have not heard of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book The Jungle, his fictionalized account of Chicago’s meatpacking industry, which set in motion dramatic social and governmental changes and highlighted the power of investigative journalism. But his 1918 book The Profits of Religion, a viciously witty censure of religious institutions in America, remains unjustly obscure. Drolly but bitterly subtitled ‘an essay in economic interpretation,’ this potent book condemns religious leaders for taking advantage of the credulity and hopefulness of ordinary Americans to line their own pockets and amass political influence. Not merely a brilliant work of persuasive journalism, this is also a document of the idealistic socialism that lingered after World War I, when the triumph of the movement’s ideal still seemed possible. American writer UPTON SINCLAIR 1878 1968 was an active socialist and contributor to many socialist publications. His muckracking books include The Moneychangers 1908, King Coal 1917, Oil! 1927, and Boston 1928.

The Fasting Cure

PREFACE IN the Cosmopolitan Magazine for May, 1910, and in the Contemporary Review London for April, 1910, I published an article dealing with my experiences in fasting. I have written a great many magazine articles, but never one which attracted so much attention as this. The first day the magazine was on the news-stands, I received a telegram from a man in Washington who had begun to fast and wanted some advice; and thereafter I received ten or twenty letters a day from people who had questions to ask or experiences to narrate. At the date of writing a year has passed, and the flood has not yet stopped. The editors of the Cosmopolitan also tell me that they have never received so many letters about Univ Calif – Digitized by Microsoft

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The Goose Step

1922. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. In this volume the author lays out the facts on the current state of American Education. Sinclair writes in the introduction: What is the so called higher education of these United States? You have taken it, for the most part, on faith. It is something which has come to be; it is big and impressive, and you are impressed. Every year you pay a hundred million dollars of public funds to help maintain it, and half that amount in tuition fees for your sons and daughters. You take it for granted that this money is honestly and wisely used; that the students are getting the best, the highest education the money can buy. Suppose I were to tell you that this educational machine has been stolen? That a bandit crew have got hold of it and have set it to work, not for your benefit, nor the benefit of your sons and daughters, but for ends very far from these? That our six hundred thousand young people are being taught, deliberately and of set purpose, not wisdom but folly, not justice but greed, not freedom but slavery, not love but hate? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Goslings

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Money Writes

1927. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. Sinclair wrote in a note at the beginning of the book: This book is a study of American literature from the economic point of view. It takes our living writers, and turns their pockets inside out, asking, Where did you get it? and What did you do for it? It is not a polite book, but it is an honest book, and it is needed. It concludes a series begun ten years ago, including The Profits of Religion, The Brass Check; The Goose step, The Goslings, and Mammonart. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Crimes of the Times: A Test of Newspaper Decency

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Mental Radio

Upton Sinclair took a gamble publishing this book. A lifelong Socialist who ran for high office several times, a muckraking author who had exposed the abuses of capitalism, was dabbling with what was seen as the occult. The impetus for this was his dear wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, known as ‘Craig,’ who had been aware all her life that she could sense things that had not yet happened, or which she had no rational access to. In the late 1920s, this came to light when Craig had an odd feeling that their friend Jack London was in mental turmoil, just prior to London’s suicide. The Sinclairs started to investigate how deep this particular rabbit hole went…
The core of this book is a series of doodles which Upton and others made outside Craig’s presence, which she was able to duplicate, apparently telepathically or through clairvoyance. Sinclair claims that Craig had over a 75 success rate over 290 tests, including 25 matches, and 50 partial matches. This success rate is obviously a lot higher than probability, considering that the potential set of drawings is a lot larger than, say, a deck of cards. Sinclair’s top reputation as a ‘speaker of truth to power’ was actually a compelling reason to take this book seriously. The response to Mental Radio was very positive, impressing academics in the field of psychology and other scientists, including Albert Einstein, who wrote the introduction to the German edition. William McDougal, Chair of the Psychology Department at Duke University, who wrote the introduction for this edition, conducted his own experiments with Craig. McDougal and J.B. Rhine later went on to found the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke, which conducted the first academic investigations of ESP. Walter Franklin Price, founder of the Boston Society for Psychical Research, asked the Sinclairs if he could analyze their res

I, Candidate for Governor

Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair’s lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor’s mansion. Using his ‘End Poverty in California’ movement more commonly called EPIC as a springboard, Sinclair ran for governor as a Democrat, equipped with a bold plan to end the Depression in California by taking over idle land and factories and turning them into cooperative ventures for the unemployed. To his surprise, thousands rallied to the idea, converting what he had assumed would be another of his utopian schemes into a mass political movement of extraordinary dimensions. With a loosely knit organization of hundreds of local EPIC clubs, Sinclair overwhelmed the moderate Democratic opposition to capture the primary election. When it came to the general election, however, his opposition employed highly effective campaign tactics: overwhelming media hostility, vicious red baiting and voter intimidation, high priced dirty tricks. The result was a resounding defeat in November.I, Candidate tells the story of Sinclair’s campaign while also capturing the turbulent political mood of the 1930s. Employing his trademark muckraking style, Sinclair exposes the conspiracies of power that ensured big money control over the media and other powerful institutions.

A Personal Jesus

A ‘Personal Jesus’ takes the life of Jesus as Upton Sinclair imagines him to be. Sinclair breaks up this novel into 3 sections youth, mission and spirit. Again, he delves into religon and leaves his usual path of politics but are not religions Christianity, Judism and Islam political? A good question throughout history and especially in our modern times. As Sinclair says in the preface ‘the story of Jesus cannot be told without controversy, for controversy is the very essence of it’. As a reviewer said, ‘Sinclair was a giant and this novel comes close to who Jesus was as a person than any scholarly account. And this is the magic of Sinclair’. Religous believers and political activist should read this novel to get a glimpse of where Sinclair is coming from. A Collector’s Edition.

The Secret Life of Jesus

This book openws your eyes to Jesus walking again from the lilies of Galilee to the thorn of Golgotha. Dr. Reinhold Niebur, famed theologian, has said of this novel: ‘While unorthodox, it is thoroughly reverent. Some orthodox Christians might not agree with the viewpoint of Upton Sinclair who seeks to appreciate the historical, the human Jesus,but even the most devout could not take offense.’ Dr. Carl Jung, wrote to Upton Sinclair, ‘You have certainly succeeded in presenting an acceptable picture…
.. should you venture to say that it is even a likely portrait of such a presumably unique charachter of high literary quality. Again, Sinclair mixes religion and politics in a unique American way. A Collector’s Edition.

The Brass Check

In this systematic critique of the structural basis of U.S. media arguably the first one ever published Upton Sinclair writes that ‘American journalism is a class institution serving the rich and spurning the poor’. Likening journalists to prostitutes, the title of the book refers to a chit that was issued to patrons of urban brothels of the era. Fueled by mounting disdain for newspapers run by business tycoons and conservative editors, Sinclair self published ‘The Brass Check‘ in the years after ‘The Jungle’ had made him a household name. Despite Sinclair’s claim that this was his most important book, it was dismissed by critics and shunned by reviewers. Yet it sold over 150,000 copies and enjoyed numerous printings. A substantial introduction to this paperback edition by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott asserts the book’s importance as a cornerstone critique of commercial journalism and a priceless resource for understanding the political turbulence of the Progressive Era.

Mammonart

Sinclair wrote: ‘All art is propaganda’…
‘Who owns the artists?’ Thus begins Sinclair’s history of art, concluding that ‘the bulk of the successful artists of any time are men in harmony with the spirit of the time, and identified with the powers prevailing.’

Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox

Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox by UPTON SINCLAIR originally published in 1933. In Tu entytiine Reels with Prologue and Epilogue A Melodrama of Fortune Conflict and Triumph, Packed with ThriOb and Heart Throbs East Side Boy Conquers Fame and Power. The Masters of Millions Envy His Triumph and Hot His Downfall. The Octopus Battles the Fox The Ehid of a Century The Sensation of a Lifetime Never in Screen History has there been a Feature so Stupendous as this. An Inside Story a Firsthand Revelation of Politics and Finance, with a Ten Billion Dollar Cast of Statesmen and Financiers. At the same time a Story for the Family, tense and moving, with Love, loyalty and a womans soul. A Romance so fine, so true, so loaded with laughter and tears that none can resist it FLOYD DELL REPORTS TO A NEW YORK PUBLISHER. I think this is a very important book. First, because it tells what a man important to his times thinks about himself. Second, because of the importance of the war between the financiers and the organizers in this motion picture field. Third, because of the immense human interest and enthralling excitement of the story. There has never been a book on this subject so completely readable by ordinary people. I myself am bored with statistics, I dont like business stories, and I started this book with no hope of ever being able to read it through. It kept me awake all night I could not stop reading it. The story has terrific interest and suspense. Also it hits the public interest of the times right in the center. It will be in every middle class home this winter, and millions of people will be talking about it. It is going to be one of the great literary sensations in the history of American publishing. Upton Sinclairs reputation has survived every exposes he has handled, and no one has ever sued him for libel, He has the goods on people and they know it. There can be no question but that the facts are substantially as the book states them, for these are all matters of court record. The interpretations alone can be questioned. I should say that the only reason for not taking advantage of the greatest opportunity of our times in publishing would be a belief in the actuality of this alleged criminal conspiracy, and the fear that the conspiracy would extend to the point of a criminal attempt to punish and wreck the publisher who put Foxs case before the public. Or have the bankers burned their fingers enough in this Fox business without attempting illegitimate inter ference In the end it would be useless, for the book will be published and they cant stop it This is the most exciting book I have read for years It adds a new and significant figure to American industrial biography. It is destined to an immense popularity, and it will make Uptom Sinclair the most widely read author in America, It will be in front page headlines, and a Congressional inquiry may keep It there for weeks or months. The films are dear to the heart of America. Contents include: PROLOGUE…


.. REEL ONE REEL TWO Shoe Bidding ant Lozengers ,…
,.,., 14 REEL THREE Pretzels and Buffalo Pans…


. 23 REEL FOUR TsJjtJ eJodteans and Common Shows…
.,.. 32 REEL FIVE The Ro i4 to Fortune…

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46 REEL SIX Over the Hill…
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,. 56 REEL SEVEN The Micbs Touch ..,.,.,,…
67 REEL EIGHT Red T pe…
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. 80 REEL NINE The Vwltum ,…
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94 REEL TEN The Octopus…
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102 REEL ELEVEN Reaping the Whirlwind…
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114 REEL TWELVE The Fox Trap…

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127 REEL THIRTEEN The Fox Hesildtes…



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The Cry for Justice

Contained in this volume are many of the most stirring, thought provoking and incisive writings on the struggle of humanity against social injustice ever written. Contributors include Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Euripides, Dante, Zola, and Tolstoy as well as contemporary authors such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Mahatma Gandhi.

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