The Jungle
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BN ID:
2940012460479
- Publisher: United Holdings Group
- Publication date: 05/02/2011
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- File size: 545 KB
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The Jungle was written by Upton Sinclair and first published in 1906. The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicago’s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians. While Sinclair’s main target was the industry’s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare.
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