Upton Sinclair

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They Call Me Carpenter

Beschreibung

Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. Sinclair's views on Christianity are clearly shown in They Call Me Carpenter. Written in 1922 the setting is post World War 1. They Call Me Carpenter is the story of the second coming. Christ returns to California and is again rejected. An excerpt reads, "In the doorway of the room appeared the little boy who had been knocked down by the car.  He looked at Carpenter, and then came towards him.  When Carpenter saw him, a smile of welcome came upon his face; he stretched out an arm, and the little fellow nestled in it.  Other children appeared in the doorway, and soon he had a group about him, sitting on his knees and on the couch.  They were little gutter-urchins, but he, seemingly, was interested in knowing their names and their relationships, what they learned in school, and what games they played.  I think he had Bertie's foot-ball crowd in mind, for he said:  "Some day they will teach you games of love and friendship, instead of rivalry and strife."

Autor

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, sleuth, political organizer, and writer who was born September 20, 1878, and died November 25, 1968. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for governor of California in 1934. He put together almost 100 books and other types of writing. In the first half of the 20th century, Sinclair's writing was well-known and liked. In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Sinclair became famous in 1906 for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle. This book showed how dirty and unsafe the U.S. meatpacking industry was, which caused a public uproar that helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act a few months later. He wrote a dirty book about American journalism called "The Brass Check" in 1919. It brought attention to the problem of "yellow journalism" and the limits of the "free press" in the US. Henry Ford's rise to power, including his "wage reform" and the Sociological Department at his company, is told in The Flivver King. It also talks about Ford's fall into antisemitism as editor of The Dearborn Independent. In the coal fields of Colorado, King Coal talks to John D. Rockefeller Jr. about his part in the Ludlow Massacre the year before.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781438510217
• ISBN-10: 1438510217
• Artikelnr.: 27874686