THE JUNGLE

by UPTON SINCLAIR, The Gunston Trust (Editor)

Overview

THE JUNGLE - by UPTON SINCLAIR - GUNSTON CLASSICS
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, examines the desperate lives and poor working conditions of meatpacking workers in Packingtown, Illinois, an area of southwest Chicago marked by its abundance of stockyards, slaughterhouses, factories, and cramped tenements, in the early 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798331482152
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	08/24/2024
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

UPTON SINCLAIR - (1878 Baltimore, Maryland - 1968 -Bound Brook New Jersey),

was an American author, muckraker, 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 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 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."