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Mainstream Media is Harmful if Swallowed, Paychecks, Perception, Propaganda ...

The Market Oracle - Jan 24, 2012
Upton Sinclair I began to write this article in early December. I had just written an article that attempted to scrutinize how the American public could stand idly by while heavily armed mercenary thugs viciously crushed the Occupy encampments across ...

High Court Tosses Humane Slaughter Law in California

Courthouse News Service - Jan 23, 2012
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle," which sparked an uproar over conditions in the meatpacking industry, inspired legislators to enact the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). A similar thing happened in California about a hundred years later, ...

Pipeline itself not the only problem we should worry about

Vancouver Sun - Jan 26, 2012
As Upton Sinclair wrote, “it is hard to get a man to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding it.” And those who stand to gain from the tarsands indirectly (like politicians) will distract people from the obvious connection ...

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The Jungle: Complete and Unabridged by Upton Sinclair

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Upton Sinclair's classic brings home the brutal plight of the working class, exposing the corruption and callousness of Corporate America. Just as relevant today as when it was first published.
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The Jungle )

by: Upton Sinclair
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

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Upton Sinclair's unflinching chronicle of crushing poverty and oppression set in Chicago in the early 1900s.

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

by: Matthew Avery Sutton

From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful as Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

During the years between the two world wars, McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States. She built an enormously successful and innovative megachurch, established a mass media empire, and produced spellbinding theatrical sermons that rivaled Tinseltown's spectacular shows.
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The Jungle, Literary Touchstone Edition

by: Upton Sinclair
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone EditionTM includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Sinclair’s characterizations and language. Chicago, 1904: The lure of good wages and a chance to live The American Dream lure thousands of unsuspecting immigrants to the big city, where they find—instead of wealth and freedom—only stifling poverty, pervasive corruption, infectious disease, and early death. Upton Sinclair’s masterpiece of muckraking fiction-mixed-with-fact led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, but not in time to save the struggling Lithuanian family whose members come to life in The Jungle.
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