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Sinclair's `Jungle': Face or bad fiction

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060424
Author:The Associated Press

The Associated Press
AP Worldstream
04-24-2006
When Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle," he wanted to draw attention to the plight of workers. It didn't work out that way.

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach," he said.

Sinclair was a young Socialist who came to Chicago in 1904 to write an expose of abysmal working conditions in the stockyards. He lived among immigrant meatpackers and made clandestine visits to plants.

A serialized version of "The Jungle" appeared the next year in "Appeal to Reason" a Socialist publication. In 1906, a shorter version was ...

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