Today is the birthday of Upton Beall Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), author. He is best known for his book, The Jungle (1906), which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago and changed the food laws of the United States of America.Upton Sinclair won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for his novel Dragon's Teeth (1942).
"An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain." - Upton Sinclair
"All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda." - Upton Sinclair
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery." - Upton Sinclair
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