The Metropolis - Softcover

Sinclair, Upton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483704823 ISBN 13: 9781483704821

Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2014

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In The Metropolis Upton Sinclair presents a detailed portrait of the wealthy elite and the extravagant life of New York City's high society. He presents this with the cynical edge of a socialist reformer's perspective providing a glimpse into the social life of the very wealthy of New York before the Great Depression. Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning who wrote over 90 books, best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle.

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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. 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. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. 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 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. 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 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. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1483704823
• ISBN 13: 9781483704821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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