Oil!
By: by Upton Sinclair.
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: R. Bentley
Published: June 1979
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780837604442
Subjects: California, Southern -- Fiction.; Petroleum industry and trade -- Fiction.; Motion picture industry -- Fiction.
Genres: Political 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, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.
Notes: Originally published by A. & C. Boni (New York, NY: 1927).