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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20060423
Author:The Associated Press

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he wanted to draw attention to the plight of workers. It didnt work out that way. I aimed at the publics heart, he said, And by accident, I hit it in the stomach. Sinclair was a young socialist who came to Chicago in 1904 to write an expos 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 published in the novel that shocked the nation and President ...

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