Upton Sinclair : American rebel / by Leon Harris.

Includes 18-pages of plates. The first set of plates can be found between pages 90 and 91. These plates include illustrations of Sinclair with his daughter and son in addition to portraits of Sinclair as a young child. The second set of plates can be found between pages 319 and 320. These plates include illustrations of Sinclair's wife and portraits of Sinclair meeting Lyndon Johnson among other noted luminaries.

The "Notes, Acknowledgments, and bibliographical information" section contains extended information on the production of this resource including a list of oft-used abbreviations and a chapter-by-chapter listing of bibliographical notes. Additionally, the resource contains a list of books published by Sinclair between 1901 and 1973 (pages 411 - 413).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-410) and index (pages 417 - 437).

Chapter I : Childhood -- Chapter II : Youth and ecstasy -- Chapter III : Author and lover -- Chapter IV : The death of the poet -- Chapter V : The poet transformed - socialist and historian -- Chapter VI : 'The Jungle' part 1 -- Chapter VII : 'The Jungle' part 2 -- Chapter VIII : A hard act to follow -- Chapter IX : Diet and adultery -- Chapter X : Scandal and fight -- Chapter XI : The triumph of hope -- Chapter XII : 'The Cry for Justice', 'King Coal', and California -- Chapter XIII : World War I -- Chapter XIV : 'The Profit of Religion' and 'Jimmie Higgins' -- Chapter XV : 'The Brass Check' -- Chapter XVI : 'Mundus Vult Decipi' -- Chapter XVII : 'The Goose-Step', 'The Goslings', the Jews -- Chapter XVIII : 'Mammonart', 'Money Writes!', world correspondent -- Chapter XIX : Dell's biography and 'Oil!' -- Chapter XX : 'Boston' -- Chapter XXI : 'American Outpost', 'Mental Radio', and three novels -- Chapter XXII : 'Que Viva Mexico!' -- Chapter XXIII : Epic -- Chapter XXIV : "Enlisted for the war" -- Chapter XXV : Sinclair and the critics -- Chapter XXVI : What can one man do?

"Of all the 20th century muckrakers, those reformers who crusaded against the nation's social and economic ills, the most effective was Upton Sinclair. No other approached him in the variety or number of causes he advocated or was successful as he was in convincing the world of their importance.Through his ninety books, thousands of pamphlets, articles, essays, book reviews letters to the editor, and lectures, he impressed on the American conscience the need for social justice, and the quality of American life was permanently affected by his courage and concern. He also influenced the thinking of millions of people around the world who had never heard of any other American writer. His three marriages, international divorce scandal, passionate friendships, and equally passionate flights (including one with John D. Rockefeller) made his personal life often more extraordinary than that of a hero in one of his many novels. Upton Sinclair's first and most famous muckraking novel was 'The Jungle', that classic of American social reform, published in 1906 when he was twenty-eight years old. It was a stinging attack on the horrors of the meat packing industry, told in shockingly graphic terms. This single effort moved the government to pass the first pure-foods law. Fittingly, sixty-one years later, in 1967, when President Johnson signed the Wholesome Meat Act, designed to plug loopholes in earlier laws, one of the most honored guests at the ceremony was Upton Sinclair. During his long span of years Sinclair attacked with his prolific pen every injustice he saw, including child labor, the misuses of power by the press, the banks, the churches, the universities, the mine owners, the low wages and long hours of the workingman, the lack of workman's compensation, discrimination against women and against trade unionists. As a socialist, Sinclair ran unsuccessfully for Congress several times and, in 1934, he switched to the Democratic party and ran a very close race for governor of California on his EPIC platform - "End Poverty in California" - and so frightened his opponents that they mounted a full campaign of "dirty tricks" to defeat him. In the forties, Sinclair embarked upon a second literary career with his best-selling Lanny Budd novels, one of which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize." --from the bookjacket