Upton Sinclair California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual |
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Author:
| Coodley, Lauren |
ISBN: | 978-0-8032-4382-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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Imprint: | Bison Books |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Had Upton Sinclair not written a single book after The Jungle, he would still be famous. But he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labour activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice.
Had Upton Sinclair not written a single book after The Jungle, he would still be famous. But he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labour activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice.