Harry Hamlin
American actor
Upton Sinclair was an influential American author, muckraker, and political activist. He wrote nearly 100 books, including the classic novel “The Jungle” that exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. Sinclair was also known for his socialist views and ran for governor of California in 1934 on the platform of ending poverty, though he was ultimately defeated.
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.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. Sinclair’s work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking expose of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him “a man with every gift except humor and silence”. He is also well remembered for the quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of the industrialized United States from both the working man’s and the industrialist’s points of view. Novels such as King Coaldescribe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time.
The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his “wage reform” and his company’s Sociological Department, to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller Jr., and his role in the 1914 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado.
Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. He was also the Democratic Party candidate for governor of California during the Great Depression, running under the banner of the End Poverty in California campaign, but was defeated in the 1934 election.
Upton Sinclair was an American author, muckraker, and political activist who lived from 1878 to 1968. He was known for his prolific writing, with nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
Upton Sinclair’s novel ,The Jungle, exposed the poor labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Upton Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. He was also the Democratic Party candidate for governor of California during the Great Depression, running under the banner of the ,End Poverty in California, campaign, but was defeated in the 1934 election.
In 1919, Sinclair published ,The Brass Check,, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the ,free press, in the United States. Four years after the publication of ,The Brass Check,, the first code of ethics for journalists was created.
Sinclair’s novels such as ,King Coal,, ,The Coal War,, ,Oil!,, and ,The Flivver King, described the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries during his time. These works can be read as historical accounts of the industrialized United States from both the working man’s and the industrialist’s perspectives.
Sinclair is well remembered for the quote: ,It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it., He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms.
Upton Sinclair won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943, and Time magazine called him ,a man with every gift except humor and silence., His work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
American writer (1878-1968)
I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
American writer (1878-1968)
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
American writer (1878-1968)
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
American writer (1878-1968)