51 and 52 Republisher_date 20220824080852 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 307 Scandate 20220819120743 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5. OL114967W Page_number_confidence 93.86 Pages 442 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 References Lilly Lib. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.Addeddate 00:01:50 Associated-names Doubleday, Page & Company Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA40659014 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled Foldoutcount 0 Identifier jungle0000upto Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2nbkq7wm6w Invoice 1652 Lccn 06006264 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9798 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400546 Openlibrary_edition Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature - being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. He is also well remembered for the line: '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.

Time magazine called him 'a man with every gift except humor and silence'. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. In 1919, he 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. meat packing 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 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life.

(1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

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