King Coal de Upton Sinclair

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. Upton Sinclair has once again taken on an American cause. He writes about the life in the coal mining area of the Rocky Mountains. The miners are a varied group of European immigrants speaking various languages, making it difficult for them to unite in order to protect themselves against being exploited by the mining company. A young upper class American tries to get work in the mines so that he can observe for himself what the conditions are like.

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	Preț	Express
Paperback (9)	55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.
CREATESPACE –	55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –	87^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.
–	116^.02 lei 3-5 săpt.
Bottom of the Hill Publishing – apr 2014	121^.48 lei 3-5 săpt.
CREATESPACE –	129^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.
Hastings College Press – iun 2015	107^.63 lei 6-8 săpt.
Echo Library – 31 aug 2006	136^.25 lei 38-44 zile
NuVision Publications – 24 apr 2008	157^.55 lei 38-44 zile
BOOK JUNGLE – 8 iun 2009	177^.90 lei 6-8 săpt.

Preț

Express

Paperback (9)

55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

87^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

116^.02 lei 3-5 săpt.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing – apr 2014

121^.48 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

129^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

Hastings College Press – iun 2015

107^.63 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 aug 2006

136^.25 lei 38-44 zile

NuVision Publications – 24 apr 2008

157^.55 lei 38-44 zile

BOOK JUNGLE – 8 iun 2009

177^.90 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which 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 exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after 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". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.