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    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party...
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    The Upton Sinclair House is an historic house at 464 N. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, California. Built in 1923, it was the home of American novelist Upton Sinclair...
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    muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven...
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    often had a major impact as well, such as those by Upton Sinclair. In his 1906 novel The Jungle, Sinclair exposed the unsanitary and inhumane practices of...
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    Mary Craig Sinclair (1882–1961) was a writer and the wife of Upton Sinclair. She was born Mary Craig Kimbrough in Greenwood, Mississippi, on February 12...
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    but fictional exposés often had a major impact, too, such as those by Upton Sinclair. In contemporary American usage, the term can refer to journalists or...
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  • 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of The Jungle). The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for governor of California...
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    against former Socialist Party member turned Democratic politician Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle. A strong third party challenge came from Progressive...
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  • records the names of the righteous The Book of Life (Sinclair book), a 1921 book by Upton Sinclair The Book of Life (Harkness novel), the third of the...
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    War. Vernon Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-1-62273-281-4. Sinclair, Upton. The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.  This...
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    Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Upton Sinclair House, home to author Upton Sinclair, is in Monrovia and is a National Historic Landmark...
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    was absorbing the social concepts of writers such as H.G. Wells and Upton Sinclair. He adopted many of the progressive social beliefs of his day and projected...
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  • director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) under contract to socialist author Upton Sinclair and other supporters in the United States. It would have been an episodic...
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    July 6, 2010 Upton Sinclair, The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962), p. 242 Leon Harris, Upton Sinclair, American...
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  • There Will Be Blood (category Films based on works by Upton Sinclair)
    directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned...
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    Leader, "Upton Sinclair's EPIC Switch: A Dilemma for American Socialists." Southern California Quarterly 62.4 (1980): 361–385. James N. Gregory, "Upton Sinclair's...
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  • campaign against socialist Upton Sinclair in an effort to prevent him from unseating incumbent Republican Frank Merriam. Sinclair ultimately lost. The couple...
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  • cause. In 1906, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a book which exposed the filthy conditions of Chicago slaughterhouses. Sinclair wrote the book while...
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  • Germany and the upcoming gubernatorial election, in particular candidate Upton Sinclair. Herman and Marion go for a stroll, where they bond over discussions...
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    the land became the Ferncliff Forest Game Refuge and Forest Preserve. Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, wrote Astor an open letter, which he describes...
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    "landmark" in protest literature, with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it. Stowe,...
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    caused public outcry. Foremost among such exposés was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, published the same year as the act. With its graphic and revolting...
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    Invented Spin: He used public opinion, the press, leaks to Congress, and Upton Sinclair to reform unconscionable industries, like the meatpackers., The Atlantic...
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    the creek's endpoint at Pershing Road. It was brought to notoriety by Upton Sinclair in his exposé on the American meat packing industry titled The Jungle...
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  • Helicon Home Colony was an experimental community formed by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, with proceeds from his novel...
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    Oil! (category Novels by Upton Sinclair)
    Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person...
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    statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for book authors, such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt...
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    Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway. Halldór Guðjónsson was...
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    in the animated feature Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! Nye portrayed Upton Sinclair in the 2020 biopic Mank. Nye later competed on The Masked Singer spinoff...
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  • Dragon's Teeth (novel) (category Novels by Upton Sinclair)
    Dragon's Teeth is a 1942 novel by Upton Sinclair that won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943. Set in the period 1929 to 1934, it covers the Nazi...
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