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    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee...
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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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    The Upton Sinclair House is a 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Frank Merriam against former Socialist Party member turned Democrat Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle. A strong third party challenge came from Progressive...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Dodge automobiles for the L.A.P.D. In 1923, Oaks also clashed with Upton Sinclair, a prominent writer and socialist politician, when one of the L.A.P...
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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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  • 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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  • Edward H. Dewey, Bernarr Macfadden, Frank McCoy, Edward Earle Purinton, Upton Sinclair and Wallace Wattles. All of these writers were either involved in the...
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  • Steinbeck (1940) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942) Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943) Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944) A Bell for Adano...
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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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    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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    Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Halldór Guðjónsson was...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is a 1933 non-fiction work by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Sinclair based the book on a series of interviews...
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    G. (1978). "Book Review – The Coal War: A Sequel to "King Coal" by Upton Sinclair". The Western Historical Quarterly. 9 (2): 233. doi:10.2307/966845....
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    have left their mark on Chicago's South Side. These include writers Upton Sinclair and James Farrell, Archibald Motley Jr. via painting, Henry Moore and...
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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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    on to write and direct There Will Be Blood (2007), based loosely on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! The film was critically acclaimed, winning numerous awards...
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