Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual Contributor(s): Coodley, Lauren (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496213432 ISBN-13: 9781496213433 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 258 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: Had Upton Sinclair not written a single book after The Jungle, he would still be famous. But Sinclair was a mere twenty-five years old when he wrote The Jungle, and over the next sixty-five years he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labor activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer on a grand scale. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice. Lauren Coodley is a historian specializing in gender, labor, and locale. She is the editor of The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California and the author of a trilogy of books about Napa history, as well as California: A Multicultural Documentary History. |