![]() ![]() Journalist" Lincoln Steffens, best known for returning from the Of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, was personally suckered by more than aįew intellectual charlatans of his day. Ironically, Sinclair himself, as a founder Given the book’s favorable publicity, it’s not surprising ![]() News source is like watching "The Blair Witch Project" because you think it’s a Reading "The Jungle" and assuming it’s a credible Government then shifted from bystander to do-gooder andĭisciplined the marketplace to protect its millions of victims.īut this is a triumph of myth over reality, of ulterior Tainting our meat, and that the moral crusader Sinclair rallied the public andĬongress to act. They think that unscrupulous capitalists were routinely A century later,Īmerican schoolchildren are still taught a simplistic and romanticized version Generated, Congress passed the famous Meat Inspection Act. In 1906, in large part because of the firestorm Sinclair Meat-packing plants, was serialized in the socialist journal Appeal to Reason.ĭoubleday published it a few months later as a book. Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel "The Jungle," set in Chicago’s One hundred years ago, in 1905, a great and enduring myth ![]()
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