Most people who were forced to read the book in school talk about how horrible and gross the scenes set in the meatpacking factories were. Two-fisted president Teddy Roosevelt reportedly loathed ...

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Radical Innocent, Anthony Arthur's excellent new biography of Upton Sinclair, offers a marvelous anecdote about the day in 1904 when Sinclair first appeared at the Chicago stockyards, ready to ...

More than a century after Upton Sinclair's gruesome "The Jungle," the president is loosening rules that protect workers and consumers alike. It was more than a century ago that Upton Sinclair went ...

In 1906, socialist author Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a powerful exposé of the brutal conditions confronting immigrant workers in Chicago’s stockyards, the filth in which meat for the ...

ON THE first of July, 1960, an era came to an end. It was hardly marked by historians, even by those hasty historians who write for the newspapers; but on that day the federal humane slaughter law ...

Anthony Arthur is the author of the forthcoming biography "Upton Sinclair: Radical Innocent." In June 1916, Upton Sinclair apologized before his talk to the ladies of the Friday Morning Club of Los ...

In the uplifting stories we tell ourselves, muckraking investigations of corporate misdeeds create a public uproar that leads to the eradication of the abuses exposed. The coronavirus crisis presents ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer In the Netflix drama, Hollywood gets involved in the race for governor. But while ...