They Call Me Carpenter (Portway Reprints) - Hardcover

Sinclair, Upton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0855946199 ISBN 13: 9780855946197

Publisher: C.Chivers, 1971

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: C.Chivers
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855946199
• ISBN 13: 9780855946197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230