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The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

(From Amazon): Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.

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Resource Type
Book
ISBN
978-0143039587
Print Status
In Print
Pages
464
Suggested Grades
11th - 12th
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Copyright
2006
URL
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303958X/ref...

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