Within American literature, certain works stand as classics not only for the story contained within their pages, but also for the deeper social and political commentary that they make. Such is the case in Upton Sinclair’s pivotal expose of the American meatpacking industry of the early 1900’s, “The Jungle”. Aside from telling a heart-rendering tale ...
Seeing the word “Oil!” on the face of a book probably was the equivalent of grabbing someone by the bow tie and telling someone right in the face to pay the hell attention. In 1927, things were fairly happy-go-lucky in America with the stock market being bullish and people not worrying about the potentials of ...
What America needs right now is a return to the glory days of the muckrakers. Muckrakers became a force to be reckoned with in American because they proved that the pen could be far mightier than the sword or even the dollar. It was Pres. Teddy Roosevelt who gave these rabble-rousing journalists their identifying nickname. ...
Upton Sinclair is considered the greatest socialist novelist America has ever produced. Of course, that is not saying a whole heck of a lot since very few socialist novels ever got published in the past and the likelihood of any getting past the strong-arm of capitalist conglomeration today is about as likely as a reality ...
I was born and raised in a Christian household, and consider myself to be a progressive, forward thinking man who believes in God, or a power greater than ourselves. I have also over the years formed my own opinion of organized religion and the well-meaning disciples of many a mega-church across the fruited plains. Likewise, ...
Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, is a unique form of journalism that incorporates a creative plot of fiction in order to expose the hidden evils in America in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The Jungle was written in response to a strike in the stockyards of Chicago that was unsuccessful, and Sinclair’s goal in ...
