Written by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
by Upton SinclairThe Jungle written by Upton Sinclair, an American novelist exposed the lives of immigrants in the industrialized American cities. Based on an investigation by the author for a socialist newspaper, he wrote this novel portraying the life of a Lithuanian immigrant who worked in the city of Chicago in a meatpacking industry. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithua..
The Brass Check - A Study of American Journalism
by Upton SinclairThe social body to which we belong is at this moment passing through one of the greatest crises of its history, a colossal process which may best be likened to a birth. We have each of us a share in this process, we are to a greater or less extent responsible for its course. To make our judgments, we must have reports from other parts of the social..
The Goose-step - A Study of American Education
by Upton SinclairWhat is the so-called “higher education” of these United States? You have taken it, for the most part, on faith. It is something which has come to be; it is big and impressive, and you are impressed. Every year you pay a hundred million dollars of public funds to help maintain it, and half that amount in tuition fees for your sons and daughters. Yo..
The Cruise of the Training Ship
by Upton SinclairThe speaker, a tall, heavily-built youth in a naval cadet uniform, grinned complacently into the upturned face of a youngster lying stretched out upon the orlop deck of the Naval Academy practice ship Monongahela.The victim, for such his uncomfortable position and bound arms proclaimed him to be, was much younger than his chief tormentor, and was, ..
Good Health and How We Won It
by Upton SinclairTen years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called “la grippe.” I recollect the date very well, because it was the first time I had been sick in fourteen years—the last difficulty having been the whooping-cough.I have many times had occasion to recall the interview with the last physician I went ..
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
by Upton SinclairAll through my seventy-one years of writing life—I started at thirteen—I have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. When I was halfway through those writing years I accepted the suggestion and wrote a book called American Outpost. The major part of that book, revised and brought up to date, is incorporated in this volume...