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Il y a 5 jours · Held in the midst of the Great Depression, the 1934 election was amongst the most controversial in the state's political history, pitting conservative Republican Frank Merriam against former Socialist Party member turned Democratic politician Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle.
Il y a 1 jour · In their exposés of the relationship between business and politics, Ida M. Tarbell, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair accused politicians of a corrupt bargain in pursuit of their own economic interests against the interests of the people. 83 Drawing upon these investigative writings, early analyses of Progressivism from Benjamin De Witt and Charles and Mary Beard interpreted Progressivism as a ...
Il y a 12 heures · The classic example is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906), in which government corruption and labour exploitation are explored through Chicago’s meatpacking industry.
Il y a 1 jour · As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” We’re living in a real-life disaster movie where we’ve already passed the stage where the hero scientist warning of impending disaster is ignored.
Il y a 2 jours · No one has ever summed up this walled-in mindset more succinctly than the “muck-raking” (i.e. scandal exposing) journalist, novelist, and socialist agitator Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Of such obdurate types he wrote: “It is hard to make a man understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.”
Il y a 12 heures · Le lynchage est une pratique de justice expéditive américaine, instaurée par Charles Lynch (1736-1796), un planteur de la Virginie et juge de paix qui, pendant la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis présida un tribunal irrégulier qui s'est constitué pour punir les loyalistes à la couronne britannique.
Il y a 1 jour · Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the ...
