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One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away ... until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests.<br>They had done nothing to deserve it."<br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&mdash; from Upton Sinclair's 1906 book "The Jungle"</font></td></tr></table> <br><a name="bio"> </a><div align=left> <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Upton Beall Sinclair was born 20 September 1878 in Baltimore, MD. His family moved to New York City in 1888. He later stated that the contrast between the poverty caused by his father's alocoholism and the wealth of his grandparents is what turned him into a socialist. Extremely intelligent, he entered college at age 14; he wrote stories and sold them to newspapers & magazines, making enough to get his own apartment at 17 while also helping support his parents. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Upton's first five books (1901-06) did not sell well. He read avidly and was influenced by <a href=FrankNorris.htm target="_blank">Frank Norris</a> ("The Octopus" 1901), other 'muckraking' journalists, and the burgeoning socialist movement. The editor of the socialist journal <u>Appeal to Reason</u> commissioned Upton to write a book about immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packing houses, providing a $500 advance; "The Jungle" was serialized in the magazine in 1905. Several publishers rejected the book, so Upton decided to publish it himself. After a magazine ad brought in 972 pre-publication orders, Doubleday was convinced to publish the book in 1906. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;"The Jungle" was a staggering success. <a href=TheodoreRoosevelt.htm target="_blank">President Theodore Roosevelt</a> is said to have read it in a day; he invited Upton to the White House and Roosevelt helped pass the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act (both 1906). While Upton's classic pro-labor exposé novel brought him international fame and passage of landmark legislation, little was changed for the workers in the meat-packing plants, which was his intention. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;In September 1905, Upton helped form the Intercollegiate Socialist Society with <a href=JackLondon.htm target="_blank">Jack London</a>, Clarence Darrow & Florence Kelley. Upton's first political campaign, for Congress in New Jersey (on the Socialist ticket) failed. He used some of his book royalties to establish a socialist community at Eaglewood, New Jersey (one of the members was Sinclair Lewis); the experiment lasted four months, when the facility was burned down by opponents. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Upton moved to Croton-on-Hudson, New York in 1914, a community of radicals that included Max Eastman & John Reed. Upton argued for U.S. participation in the War in Europe, while others opposed that action; Upton split with the Socialist Party over the issue. He moved to Monrovia, near Pasadena, California in 1916. After the passage of the draconian Espionage Act of 1917, Upton took on the cause of war protestors, including Eugene Debs, who were imprisoned for sedition. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Upton continued writing after World War I, including an admission that he had been wrong in his pro-war position. Anarchist hysteria reigned in the early 1920s. Labor strikers were accused of being Communists (or <a href=IWW.htm target="_blank">Wobblies</a>), and the police often used Ku Klux Klan thugs to break up peaceful demonstrations. Upton asked the City of Los Angeles to allow a public meeting at the harbor, where 600 dockworkers on strike had been jailed; he was refused permission. On 15 May 1923, Upton climbed up 'Liberty Hill' above San Pedro Harbor, and began reading the Bill of Rights to the assembled crowd; the police chief arrested him. Upton's brother-in-law began to read from the Declaration of Independence; he was arrested. A third man was also arrested; a fourth man arose and commented on the weather, for which he too was arrested. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Local officials held the four <i>incommunicado</i> for 18 hours, then tried to rush court proceedings and deny the men bail. But somebody tipped off Upton's lawyer, who arranged their release. A week later, Upton again climbed Liberty Hill and spoke before a crowd of 5,000; he was not arrested. That same day, the citizens of Los Angeles formed the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. The next day, all but 28 of the 600 striking dockworkers were released from jail; charges against Upton and his fellows were quietly dropped. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;In 1926, Upton re-joined the Socialist Party and ran for governor of California. In 1934, he left the Socialist Party permanently and proposed the E.P.I.C. program [End Poverty in California], which won him Democratic Party backing for another race for governor, against Republican Frank F. Merriam. The Sinclair campaign was leading in the polls. M.G.M. produced bogus <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/lantern/newsreels.htm" target="_blank">newsreel</a> footage linking Sinclair with radicals & communists & anarchists, and distributed them in the weeks just before the election (the first such election tactic in history); Sinclair lost. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;In 1940, Upton began writing a series of 11 novels about Lanny Budd, all of which were successes; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 for "Dragon's Teeth". In 1953, he moved to windswept Buckeye, Arizona. In 1967, President Johnson invited Upton, then wheelchair-bound, for another visit to the White House, to witness signing of the strict Wholesome Meat Act. <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Marriage in 1900 to Meta Fuller, produced a son, David; they were divorced in 1911. Marriage to Mary Craig Kimbrough in 1913 lasted until her death in 1961. A third marriage, to Mary Elizabeth Willis, ended at her death in 1967. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Upton Sinclair died on 25 November 1968 at age 90.</div> <p><br><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <br><a name="links"> </a><p><big><big><b>Links</b></big></big> <br><a href="http://www.libertyhill.org/common/news_press/articles/la_then_and_now.htm" target="_blank">L.A. Times article on Upton Sinclair {posted at Liberty Hill Foundation}</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801737/" target="_blank">Upton Sinclair's movie credits at Internet Movie Database</a> <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair" target="_blank">Upton Sinclair entry at Wikipedia</a> <br><a href="http://www.ufcw.org/about_ufcw/where_we_come_from/uptonsinclair.cfm" target="_blank">Union Stockyard [Chicago] Literary Landmark Dedication Ceremony - 23 June 2005</a> <br><a href="http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp" target="_blank">CSPAN special</a> <br><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm" target="_blank">Spartacus/Schoolnet Upton Sinclair fansite</a> <br><a href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm" target="_blank">entry at Kirjasto website</a> <br><a href="http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/sinclair.asp" target="_blank">C-SPAN 'American Writers' episode [2001] webpage</a> <br><a href="http://www.ssa.gov/history/sinclair.html" target="_blank">history of Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Program at Social Security website</a> <br><a href="http://www.libertyhill.org/dinner/past.html" target="_blank">Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Dinner & Award [est. 1981]</a> <p>"Upton Sinclair on CD-ROM" [12 books, 4 plays] <br><small><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0931968437/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">B&R Samizdat Express CD-ROM [6/2003] for $17.10</a> <br><a href="http://www.samizdat.com/sinclaircd.html" target="_blank">publisher's product page</a></small> <p><table border=0 width=670><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Works of Upton Sinclair for Kindle device" width=105 height=140 src="covers/kWorksUptonSinclair.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>Works of Upton Sinclair for Kindle [2009]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001NH4AJ6/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Kindle Edition from MobileReference [1/2009] for $4.79</a> <br><font color=green>includes 14 novels &ndash; "A Prisoner of Morro", "Damaged Goods", "Jimmie Higgins", "The Journal of Arthur Stirling", "The Jungle", "King Coal", "King Midas", "Love's Pilgrimage", "The Metropolis", "The Moneychangers", "100%: The Story of A Patriot", "Samuel The Seeker", "Sylvia's Marriage" & "They Call Me Carpenter" &ndash; and 5 plays, plus other works</font> </td></tr></table> <br><a name="fiction"> </a><p><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><br><big><big><b>Primary Novels by Upton Sinclair</b></big></big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=nordellbookst-20&path=tg/browse/-/70619/" target="_blank">Upton Sinclair catalog at Amazon</a> <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><a name="jungle"> </a><big>"The Jungle: The Lie of The American Dream" [1906]</big> <br><font color=green>"What 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for black slaves, 'The Jungle' has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today."<br> <a href=JackLondon.htm target="_blank">Jack London [1876-1916]</a></font> <p><table border=0 width=650><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="The Jungle" width=100 height=169 src="covers/USthejungle.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593080085/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">B&N Classics pb [9/2003] for $4.95</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553212451/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Bantam Classics pb [10/81] for $5.95</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0791071693/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Chelsea House 9&frac14x6&frac14 pb [7/2002] for $14.67</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0791063410/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Chelsea House 9&frac12x6&frac14 hardcover [12/2001] for $37.95</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0613460820/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">7&frac14x4 library binding [8/2001] for $11.16</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0835910504/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Globe Fearon ABR audio [12/95] for $26.90</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786107898/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Blackstone UNABR audio [10/94] for $78.94</a> <br><big>graphic novel edition: adapted & drawn by Peter Kuper</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561634042/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">ComicsLit 11&frac34x7&frac34 hardcover [9/2004] for $15.95</a> <br><big>Norton Critical Edition, edited by Clare Virginia Eby</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039397779X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">W.W. Norton 8&frac34x6&frac34 pb [12/2002] for $12.10</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Jungle: Uncensored" height=153 src="covers/JungleUS_orig.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <br><big>"The Jungle: Uncensored Original Edition" [1906]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884365302/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">See Sharp Press pb [4/2003] for $9.60</a> <p><big>Lost First Edition [1988], edited by Gene Degruson</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0918518660/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">St. Lukes Press pb [10/88] out of print/used</a> </td></tr></table> <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="King Coal by Upton Sinclair" width=104 height=156 src="covers/KingCoalUS.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"King Coal: A Novel" [1917]</big> <br><font color=green>A fictional version of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1603120378/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Aegypan 9x6 pb [1/2007] for $15.95</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1426425279/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">BiblioBazaar 8x5 pb [9/2006] for $16.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/141912868X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Kessinger Publng 9x7&frac12 pb [6/2004] for $24.28</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553214330/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Bantam Classic pb [7/94] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598182412/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Aegypan 9x6 hardcover [12/2006] for $29.95</a> <br><big>sequel "The Coal War" [1976]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870810677/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Univ Press of CO hardcover [6/76] out of print/used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Millenium / Comedy" width=100 height=151 src="covers/USmillenium.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><br><big>"The Millenium: A Comedy of The Year 2000"<br>[1924 novel based on 1907 play]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583220216/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Seven Stories Press 8&frac14x5&frac12 pb [4/2000] for $11.53</a> <br><a href="http://www.uptonsinclair.com/" target="_blank">official booksite</a> </td></tr></table> <img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><table border=0 width=725><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Oil! by Upton Sinclair" height=154 src="covers/oilUS.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Oil!: A Novel" [1927]</big> <br><font color=green>A fast-paced tale of the 1920s oil boom in Southern California</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143112260/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Penguin 7&frac34x5&frac12 movie tie-in pb [12/2007] for $10.20</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520207270/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Univ CA Press 8x5&frac12 pb [4/97] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0837604443/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Bentley hardcover [6/79] out of print/used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="There Will Be Blood movie poster" width=102 height=151 src="covers/pThereWillBeBlood-face.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;<br><img alt="There Will Be Blood movie poster" border=1 width=104 height=154 src="covers/pThereWillBeBlood-fire.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"There Will Be Blood" feature film [Paramount Vantage/Miramax Dec 2007]</big><br><font color=green>A wealthy oilman meets his match when he tries to cheat a Texas family headed by a blowhard preacher.</font> Co-produced, 'loosely adapted' & directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!"; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds & Dillon Freasier; won Oscars for Best Actor (DDL) & Best Cinematography, Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script Adaptation, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing & Best Art Direction; also won ASC, ADG, BAFTA Best Actor (plus 8 BAFTA noms), Berlin Silver Bear & SAG Best Actor awards, and DGA, PGA & WGA noms <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00104QSOM/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Paramount widescreen color DVD Spcl Collector's Edition [4/2008] 2 disks for $21.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0013FXWU6/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Paramount widescreen color DVD [4/2008] for $15.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0015T6VGC/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">27"x40" fire poster from Amazon for $19.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0015R6EEI/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">11"x17" fire poster from Amazon for $14.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0015T6PCW/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">27"x40" face poster from Amazon for $19.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.therewillbeblood.com/" target="_blank">official movie site</a> </td></tr></table> <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><table border=0 width=650><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Boston by Upton Sinclair" height=150 src="covers/BostonUS.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Boston: A Documentary Novel {of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case}" [1928]</big> <br><font color=green>A Boston brahmin who is the widow of the ex-governor becomes involved in the social and political turmoil created by the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0837604206/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Bentley 9&frac14x6&frac12 hardcover [12/78] for $32.00</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Flivver King by Upton Sinclair" src="covers/USflivverking.gif" width=100 height=142>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America" [1937]</big> <br><font color=green>"[This] book was instrumental in the formation of the United Auto Workers' Union."</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0882860542/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Charles H. Kerr Publg 8&frac34x6&frac12 pb [3/84] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0882860550/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Charles H. Kerr Publg pb [1/87] out of print/used</a> </td></tr></table> <br><a name="other"> </a><p><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><big><big><b>Other Fiction by Upton Sinclair</b></big></big> <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p>"A Prisoner of Morro" [1898] <p>"Springtime and Harvest" [1901], reissued same year as "King Midas" <br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtime_and_Harvest <p>"The Journal of Arthur Stirling" [1903] <br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Arthur_Stirling <p>"A Captain of Industry" [1906] <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><table border=0 width=650> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="The Money Changers 1908 novel by Upton Sinclair" border=1 width=106 height=169 src="covers/USmoneychangers1908.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"The Money Changers" [1908] by Upton Sinclair</big><br><font color=green>A novel about the Wall Street Panic of 1907, a financial disaster brought on <u>deliberately</u> by powerful banking barons intent upon the ruin of their rivals.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JQUFT6/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Kindle Edition from Public Domain Books [6/2004 edition] for FREE!</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1406544086/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Dodo Press 8&frac34x5&frac34 pb [10/2007] for $1.50 {sic}</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598182390/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Aegypan 9x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $24.95</a> </td></tr></table> <img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p>"The Metropolis" [1908] <p>"Samuel The Seeker" [1910] <p>"Love's Pilgrimage" [1911] <p>"Damaged Goods" [1913] <p>"Sylvia's Marriage" [1914] <p>"Jimmie Higgins" [1919] <p>"100%: The Story of A Patriot" [1920] <p>"They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of The Second Coming" [1922] <br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Call_Me_Carpenter:_A_Tale_of_the_Second_Coming <p><table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="best available cover for Depression Island book by Upton Sinclair" width=106 height=161 src="covers/DepressionIslandUS.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><br><big>"Depression Island" [self-publd 1935] by <a href=UptonSinclair.htm target="_blank">Upton Sinclair</a></big><br>'Published by the author' in Pasadena, California; cover price $1.00 <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00087JU3I/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">T.W. Laurie hardcover [1935] out of print/scarce</a> </td></tr></table> <p><img src=images/tinypen.gif> <p><br><big><b>Children's Books by Upton Sinclair</b></big> <p>"The Gnomobile" [1936, 1962] <p><a name="LBudd"> </a><br><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><big><big><b><i>Lanny Budd</i> Novels Series by Upton Sinclair</b></big></big> <table border=0 width=750><tr><td align=left><font color=maroon><big>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Between 1940 and 1953 Sinclair wrote 11 novels about an American named Lanny Budd that, read in sequence, detailed much of the political history of the Western world in the first half of the XXth Century. Though almost totally forgotten today, they were all bestsellers upon publication and were published in 21 countries. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The third book in the series, "Dragon's Teeth", won the <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?580,22" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prize in 1943</a>. <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;Starting in 2001, small publisher <a href="http://www.simonpublications.com/dosearch.asp?cat=searchByAuthor&selectauthor=Sinclair,%20Upton" target="_blank">Simon Publications</a> reprinted all of the Lanny Budd 'World's End' novels {in 22 volumes} & several other Upton Sinclair works.</font> </big></td></tr></table> <p>"World's End" [1940]<small> <br><font color=green>The story of Lanny Budd, a young American in Europe from 1913 to 1919.</font></small> <p>"Between Two Worlds" [1941]<small> <br><font color=green>Lanny's life in Europe from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to the Crash of 1929, against a background of<br>international conferences, high society yacht cruises, and the rise of Mussolini & Hitler.</font></small> <p>"Dragon's Teeth" [1942] <table border=0 width=650><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Dragon's Teeth 1942 by Upton Sinclair" width=98 height=130 src="covers/USdragonsteeth.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><font color=green>The rise of Hitler & the Nazi Party in Germany, from the 1929 stock market crash to the 1934 'Blood Purge'; <b>won the <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?580,22" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prize in 1943</a></b>.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0899669565/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Buccaneer hardcover [6/92] for $12.89</a> <br><big>"Dragon's Teeth - Part I"</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931313032/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95</a> <br><big>"Dragon's Teeth - Part II"</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931313156/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95</a> </td></tr></table> <p>"Wide Is The Gate" [1943]<small><br><font color=green>1934-37: From the Nazi Blood Purge to the Spanish Civil War. Lanny joins the German underground<br>and mascarades as an international arts dealer.</font></small> <p>"Presidential Agent" [1944]<small><br><font color=green>1937-38: As war clouds gather in Europe, Lanny becomes a special agent of <a href=FDRoosevelt32.htm target="_blank">President Roosevelt</a>.</font></small> <p>"Dragon Harvest" [1945]<small><br><font color=green>1938-40: Right after Munich & Dunkirk, <a href=FDRoosevelt32.htm target="_blank">President Roosevelt</a> sends Lanny to Berchtesgaden<br>to seek out Hitler's plans to invade Britain.</font></small> <p>"A World To Win" [1946]<small><br><font color=green>1940-42: Lanny interviews Stalin in Russia, meets with Hess in Scotland,<br>and witnesses the Japanese assault at Hong Kong.</font></small> <p>"Presidential Mission" [1947]<small><br><font color=green>1942-43: <a href=FDRoosevelt32.htm target="_blank">President Roosevelt</a> sends Lanny to North Africa and behind the lines in embattled Germany.</font></small> <p>"One Clear Call" [1948]<small><br><font color=green>1943-44: <a href=FDRoosevelt32.htm target="_blank">President Roosevelt</a> sends Lanny to Italy, where he discovers plots on Hitler's life<br>and learns about Germany's development of rockets & the atom bomb.</font></small> <p>"O Shepherd, Speak!" [Viking 1949] <table border=0 width=650><tr valign=top><td align=right> <img alt="O Shepherd, Speak! 1949 by Upton Sinclair" width=85 height=122 src="covers/USshepherdspeak.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><font color=green>1944-45: Lanny's adventures include the Battle of the Bulge, the Yalta Conference, <a href=FDRoosevelt32.htm target="_blank">President Roosevelt</a>'s death, <a href=atomicUSA.htm#TTS target="_blank">the A-bomb test at Trinity</a>, and the Nuremberg Trials.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9997531728/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Viking hardcover [1949] out of print/used</a> <br><big>"O Shepherd, Speak! - Part I"</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931313105/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95</a> <br><big>"O Shepherd, Speak! - Part II"</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931313288/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95</a> </td></tr></table> <p>"The Return of Lanny Budd" [1953]<small><br><font color=green>1946-49: Lanny confronts the threat to world peace from the tyrannical Communist regimes of Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.</font></small> <br><a name="nonfxn"> </a><p><br><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><big><big><b>Non-Fiction by Upton Sinclair</b></big></big> <p><table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Goose Step / Upton Sinclair" width=100 height=149 src="covers/USgoosestep.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"The Goose Step: A Study of American Education" [1923]<br>by Upton Sinclair</big><br><font color=green>"a scathing attack on business domination of education"</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1417942126/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Kessinger 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $25.71</a> </td></tr></table> <p>"We, People of America - and How We Ended Poverty: A True Story of The Future" [1933] <p>"I, Governor of California - and How I Ended Poverty" [1933] <p>"The EPIC Plan for California" [1934] <p>"I, Candidate For Governor - and How I Got Licked" [1935] <p>"EPIC Answers: How To End Poverty In California" [1935] <br><a name="about"> </a><p><br><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><big><big><b>Works About Upton Sinclair</b></big></big> <p>"My Lifetime In Letters" [1960] <p>"The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair" [Harcourt, Brace & World 1962] <p><table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="¡Que Viva México! issue of Experimental Cinema Magazine" border=1 width=106 height=144 src="covers/SMEexpcinemaQVM.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Sergei Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: The Making &<br>Unmaking of <i>¡Qué Viva México!</i>" [1970]<br>by Harry M. Geduld & Ronald S. Gottesman</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500500037/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Thames & Hudson hardcover [9/70] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253180503/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Indiana Univ Press hardcover [9/70] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/lantern/Eisenstein.htm" target="_blank">Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948] Page at Magic Lantern</a> </td></tr></table> <p>"Upton Sinclair: American Rebel" [1975] by Leon A. Harris</font> <br><small><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0690006713/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Crowell hardcover [1975] out of stock/many used</a></small> <p><table border=0> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Take Back Your Government!" width=100 height=164 src="covers/RAHtakebackyourgovt.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Take Back Your Government!: A Practical Handbook For<br>The Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy To Work" [1992]<br>by <a href=Heinlein.htm target="_blank">Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]</a></big><br><font color=green><b>Written in 1946, published posthumously</b>; based on Heinlein's experience<br>in California politics in the 1930s, particularly his efforts on behalf of <b>Upton<br>Sinclair</b>'s EPIC Movement and Sinclair's attempt to become the Democratic<br>Party's nominee for California governor in 1934.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671721577/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Baen mass pb [7/92] out of print/used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Campaign of The Century / Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor book by Greg Mitchell" border=1 width=106 height=159 src="covers/UScampaignofcenturyGM.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <big>"The Campaign of The Century: Upton Sinclair's {E.P.I.C.}<br>Race For Governor of California and The Birth of Media Politics"<br>[1992] by Greg Mitchell, {new} Foreword by Peter Schrag</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1936227088/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Polipoint Press 9x6 pb [10/2010] for $18.21</a>&nbsp&nbsp<img src=images/littlerednew.gif> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679748547/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Random House mass pb [11/93] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679411682/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Random House 9&frac12x6&frac12 hardcover [4/92] out of print/many used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="U.S.!: A Novel" width=100 height=150 src="covers/USbiobyCS.gif">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"U.S.!: A Novel" [2006] by Chris Bachelder</big><br><font color=green>The author brings Upton Sinclair back from the dead, to see<br>what he has to say about leftist politics and today's world.</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582346364/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Bloomsbury USA 8x6 pb [2/2006] for $9.72</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Upton Sinclair bio by Kevin Mattson" src="covers/USamericancenturyKM.gif" width=100 height=154>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Upton Sinclair and The Other American Century" [2006]<br>by Kevin Mattson</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471725110/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Wiley 9&frac12x7 hardcover [4/2006] for $17.13</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Radical Innocent" width=105 height=160 src="covers/USradicalinnocentAA.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair" [2006]<br>by Anthony Arthur</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400061512/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Random House 9&frac12x6&frac12 hardcover [6/2006] for $18.45</a> </td></tr> </table> <br><a name="media"> </a><p><hr width=500 color=darkgray> <p><big><big><b>Music, Videos, Other Media</b></big></big> <p><a href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?aid=90827&item=414188" target="_blank"> <img src=covers/pUptonSinclair.jpg border=0 width=160 height=103 alt="17&quot;w by 11&quot; high Upton Sinclair print from AllPosters.com"></a> <p><br><hr width=600 color=darkgray> <p><img src=images/Timecover_19341022uptonsinclair.jpg alt="Upton Sinclair on cover of Time Magazine, 22 Oct 1934" width=184 height=243>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/USinclair_gray.gif alt="portrait of Upton Sinclair with gray hair" width=202 height=233> <p><br>Online sales in association with&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=nordellbookst-20&path=tg/browse/-/70619/" target="_blank"><img border=0 src=images/amazon.gif width=100 height=30 alt="Upton Sinclair books catalog at Amazon"></a>&nbsp&nbsp;and&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.allposters.com/GetThumb.asp?aid=90827&search=labor" target="_blank"><img src="images/allposters.gif" border=0 alt="labor posters at AllPosters.com"></a> <p><a href=#top>top of this page</a> &nbsp&nbsp<font face=webdings>@</font>&nbsp&nbsp <a href=index.htm>back to Spirit of America Bookstore homepage</a> <br><br> </div> </body> </html>