Random links to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle on the 100 year anniversary of the book publication of the novel. Links not screened for political quality:
The Ripple Effect
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
… Upton Sinclair, who moved to LA and ran for governor (what kind of crazy writer does that?), for showing the power of the pen to change governments. …
Popeye had it right
Boston Globe – United States
… To be sure, the vegetables and fruits and meat we consume today are, overall, vastly safer than the putrid mess that the author Upton Sinclair exposed a …
‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Rockbridge Weekly – Lexington,VA,USA
… There is a great quote by Upton Sinclair on the film’s official web site: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it … “
E. coli hunt exposes gaps in safety system
Miami Herald – FL,USA
… oversight of the rest of the food supply, has changed little since its creation a century ago following publication of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair’s expose of …
Best to let bin Laden fade away
Akron Beacon Journal – Akron,OH,USA
… My favorite book so far this year is a novel by Chris Bachelder called US The initials stand for Upton Sinclair, the American socialist writer best known for …
Three influential Americans put heart above brain
Town Hall – Washington,DC,USA
… Henry Ward Beecher, Upton Sinclair, Herbert Matthews: One a late 19th century pastor and orator, the second an early 20th century best-selling novelist, the … Eating Safely in the Jungle
Truth about Trade & Technology – Des Moine,IA,USA
… This year happens to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Jungle, the book by Upton Sinclair that is one of the best-known and most influential …
Don’t Panic Over Spinach
Reason Online – Los Angeles,CA,USA
… In 1900, six years before Upton Sinclair wrote his great muckraking book, The Jungle, about the filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry, the death rate …
Cruel slaughter, JAMES ANDERSON, Concord – Letter
Concord Monitor – Concord,NH,USA
ne hundred years ago, social critic Upton Sinclair’s masterpiece The Jungle exposed the filthy conditions and cruel treatment of animals and workers in Chicago …
Making news on Martha’s Vineyard
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
… apologias for the American Institute of Meat Packers, which had been trying for over a decade to recover from the revelations in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”
Review: The Jungle A searing indictment of capitalism
Socialist Party – UK
IT IS 100 years ago since the publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. His devastating exposé of the meat packing industry …
Hog Hell
Yahoo! News – USA
The Nation — This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle. Its depiction of unchecked greed and …
Los Angeles Times
The Register-Guard – Eugene,Oregon,USA
… injustice. Consider the fiction of writers such as John Steinbeck and Upton Sinclair, what might be called social realism. Today …
Amy Goodman Dinner-Lecture In Los Angeles
PCH Press – Malibu,CA,USA
… carrying the great muckraking tradition of Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and IF Stone into the electronic age. Goodman …
New war and new judgments
Ottawa Sun – Ontario, Canada
… Noam Chomsky, George Bernard Shaw, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Jean-Paul Sartre: The story of how many intellectuals got it …
Cross River Traffic by Chris Roberts (GRANTA £7.99)
Independent – London,England,UK
… shoes wear out. Upton Sinclair was a prolific American author whose work usually advanced a socialist point of view. His most powerful …
Wanted: One hero for the Left
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
by Chris Bachelder. What if Upton Sinclair was brought back to life? No, not the author of Babbitt and Main Street that was Sinclair Lewis. …
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UPPIE REDUX?
New Yorker – United States
A hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair, the muckraker and socialist, brought out “The Jungle,” a sensationally grim expose of the noisome squalors and …
Faith in spades
Guardian Unlimited – UK
by Chris Bachelder. I’ve never been able to eat a sausage since, at the age of 15, I read Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. …
Freetrade consequences
Diamondback Online – College Park,MD,USA
… if any, breaks. These foreign Third World workers could literally be characters out of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Many of these …
Eco-Prisoner Chris McIntosh Interviews Derrick Jensen
Infoshop News – USA
… There’s a great line by Upton Sinclair when he says, “It’s hard to make a man understand something when his job depends on him not understanding it”…
N. Spencer, After Utopia. The Rise of Critical Space in Twentieth …
Fabula – France
… Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns …
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