{"product_id":"upton-sinclair-california-socialist-celebrity-intellectual-paperback-softback-9781496213433","title":"Upton Sinclair; California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496213433","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUpton Sinclair\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCalifornia Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLauren Coodley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496213433\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 23 photographs, 4 illustrations, 1 map, 2 appendixes, index\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.308 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Thoroughly engaging.\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Coodley's biography should renew interest in the works of this passionate writer.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"An invaluable look at Sinclair's full life and influential work.\"—Carl Hays, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Coodley's book is a welcome resource both for general readers eager to learn more about Sinclair's life after \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e and for historians eager for new perspectives on an iconic (and iconoclastic) activist.\"-Justin Nordstrom, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This new biography goes beyond the usual focus on Sinclair's literary prowess to examine the extent of his entire life and his influence on California and American civil and social rights, and fills in gaps narrower focuses have created in the past.\"—James A. Cox, \u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUpton Sinclair\u003c\/i\u003e is an asset for those beginning to impose order on the real-life and imagined women who help constitute Sinclair's legacy.\"—Laura Hapke, \u003ci\u003eWorking USA:The Journal of Labor and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHad Upton Sinclair not written a single book after \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, he would still be famous. But Sinclair was a mere twenty-five years old when he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, and over the next sixty-five years he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labor activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer on a grand scale. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e shows us Sinclair engaged in one cause after another, some surprisingly relevant today—the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the depredations of the oil industry, the wrongful imprisonment of the Wobblies, and the perils of unchecked capitalism and concentrated media. Throughout, Lauren Coodley provides a new perspective for looking at Sinclair's prodigiously productive life. Coodley's book reveals a consistent streak of feminism, both in Sinclair's relationships with women—wives, friends, and activists—and in his interest in issues of housework and childcare, temperance and diet. This biography will forever alter our picture of this complicated, unconventional, often controversial man whose whole life was dedicated to helping people understand how society was run, by whom, and for whom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681263939864,"sku":"9781496213433","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/upton-sinclair-california-socialist-celebrity-intellectual-paperback-softback-9781496213433","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}