Upton Sinclair
1) The jungle
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
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"Three men are cast ashore on a tropical island, and one of them becomes the 'owner,' and hires the other two to work for wages; so they soon have 'overproduction' of fish and coco-nuts, with 'hard times,' unemployment, a 'coco-nut line,' strikes, 'Reds,' and all the troubles we know so well"--Dust jacket.
8) World's end
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Lanning "Lanny" Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother's glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious -- but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining...
10) Boston: a novel
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A Boston dowager becomes involved in the social upheaval generated by the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartelomeo Vanzetti.
12) The wet parade
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Follows the members of two families whose lives are impacted by alcohol addiction and Prohibition.
13) Oil!
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First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration.
14) The jungle
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A graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel in which a young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards.
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A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing...