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Intreview: Morris Dickstein discusses Upton Sinclair's classic novel "The Jungle"

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20040102
Author:MELISSA BLOCK

MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
01-02-2004
Intreview: Morris Dickstein discusses Upton Sinclair's classic novel "The Jungle"

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

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Nearly a century ago, this country went through another period of deep concern about the safety of the meat supply. The year was 1906. The president was Theodore Roosevelt. The catalyst wasn't a sick cow but a best-selling novel, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," a searing portrait of the lives of immigrant families who worked in the Chicago stockyards. Its vivid detail about meat contamination in the ...

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