Upton Sinclair

The Moneychangers

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Produktbeschreibung

The Moneychangers is Upton Sinclair's novel about the Wall Street financial disaster of 1907 brought on deliberately by the greedy to ruin their rival trust company creating a crash in the stock market and a run on American banks. Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning who wrote over 90 books, best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781483704838
• ISBN-10: 1483704831
• Artikelnr.: 40828952

Autorenporträt

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.