Upton Sinclair

Broschiertes Buch

The Fasting Cure

Beschreibung

2018 Reprint of 1911 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Upton Sinclair's The Fasting Cure describes his extensive personal experience and that of others with the challenges and health and curative benefits of fasting. The Fasting Cure is both instructive and (occasionally) amusing and includes several cancer healing testimonials attributed to fasting. Note however that The Fasting Cure was written over 100 years ago, i.e. decades before environmental, chemical & radiation pollution started to become major problems (particularly but not exclusively) throughout the westernized world and to pose new health burdens on the human body.

Autor

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. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Martino Fine Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781684222162
• ISBN-10: 1684222168
• Artikelnr.: 52549879