Oil!
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Upton Sinclair ; foreword by Jules Tygiel.
Series: California fiction; California fiction (Series)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Fiction; Motion picture industry -- Fiction; California, Southern -- Fiction
Description: "In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical refereces (p. xi).