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Sinclair redux: The Jungle is 100, and a slew of scholars find the old radical as relevant as ever.(Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair)(Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century)(Book review)

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From: Columbia Journalism Review
Date: 20060701
Author:Klein, Julia M.

Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, by Anthony Arthur, Random House. 377 pp. $27.95

Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century, by Kevin Mattson John Wiley & Sons. 294 pp. $29.95

A century after its publication, The Jungle remains the single work for which Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is remembered, when he is remembered at all. Yet in terms of Sinclair's own radical political goals, his international bestseller was something of a failure. The picaresque, Dickensian tale of an immigrant stockyard worker at the mercy of corrupt bosses and politicians, squalid working and ...

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