{"product_id":"the-metropolis-by-upton-sinclair-fiction-classics-literary-9781603120388","title":"The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics, Literary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen an injustice befalls the poor, Allan is the first to fight for what is right. \u003c\/strong\u003eBut as he continues his lawsuit, he begins to realize that the very people he's fighting with are the very people who rule New York. He must be wily and careful if he is to survive this pursuit of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of \u003cem\u003eDragon's Teeth.\u003c\/em\u003e His best known work is \u003cem\u003eThe Jungle, \u003c\/em\u003e a novel about the abhorrent practices of the meat packing industry at the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSinclair, Upton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aegypan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855943635218,"sku":"9781603120388","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ade4a4d-90b7-4a06-aa8b-bd7d28bda90b.jpg?v=1737489808","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-metropolis-by-upton-sinclair-fiction-classics-literary-9781603120388","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}