Upton Sinclair
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other wor
Sinclair c. 1900
Upton Sinclair early in his career
Upton Sinclair wearing a white suit and black armband, picketing the Rockefeller Building in New York City
Socialist Party campaign poster featuring Sinclair and Chaim Shapiro as candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of California, respectively, 1930
The Jungle
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The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for t
Upton Sinclair
…popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his novel, The Jungle, which "exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry", causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the enactment…
First edition
A panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer
Men walking on wooden rails between cattle pens in the Chicago stockyard, 1909
Chicago meat inspectors in early 1906