Title: Upton Sinclair : California socialist, celebrity intellectual /
Authors: Coodley, Lauren
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sinclair, Upton,; Sinclair, Upton; Social reformers California Biography.; Novelists, American Biography; Social change United States History; Investigative reporting United States Biography.
Abstract: Reveals Upton Sinclair's role as a social, political, and cultural reformer who was also a writer, filmmaker, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer, providing a new perspective on the activist's productive life.
Contents: Southern gentlemen drank, 1878-1892 -- Making real men of our boys, 1893-1904 -- Good health and how we won it, l905-1915 -- Singing jailbirds, 1916-1927 -- How I ran for governor, 1928-1939 -- World's end, 1940-1949 -- A lifetime in letters, 1950-1968 -- Afterword: A world to win, 1969-2011 -- Appendix A: Upton Sinclair's women friends -- Appendix B: Recommended readings.