The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
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This muckraking novel changed the course of history with its gruesomely detailed picture of the meat-packing industry. Historically accurate and humanistic, the book remains an invaluable mirror by which we may still examine ourselves and society today.
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The Jungle. With Illustrations by Fletcher Martin and a New Preface (Heritage Press)
1965, Heritage Press
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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
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