To: Heartlander
The muckraker Upton Sinclair was commissioned to write "The Jungle" by the leading socialist newspaper at the time, Appeal to Reason
from:https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500504/10-things-you-should-know-about-upton-sinclairs-jungle
3 posted on
06/29/2022 1:41:33 PM PDT by
frogjerk
(I will not do business with fascists)
To: frogjerk
The first 2/3 of the book was pretty good then he went full retard about the glories of socialism.
4 posted on
06/29/2022 1:44:59 PM PDT by
enraged
To: frogjerk
I had to read The Jungle when I was a Junior in High School. Maybe it was required in Illinois, not sure it was the teacher’s choice. I immediately spotted it was propaganda, and the author is correct - the teacher didn’t get into the rest of the story.
15 posted on
06/29/2022 7:02:09 PM PDT by
piasa
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