Poor Upton, wanted to start a socialist revolution with his little book, but got entrenched cartels instead. He did make some coin off the novel, but proceeded to blow a good chunk of it on a failed commune in New Jersey.
Worst of all for Sinclair, Teddy Roosevelt seized the outrage from his book and started the modern corporate-kleptocracy (”When government controls business, business will control government”, NYT, 1911)
(”When government controls business, business will control government”, NYT, 1911)
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