| The Book of Life Contributor(s): Sinclair, Upton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1502489856 ISBN-13: 9781502489852 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.01 lbs) 342 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (1878 - 1968), was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). It 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 expos of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after the initial 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." In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |