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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20060604
Author:Roger K. Miller

BIOGRAPHY

RADICAL INNOCENT

Upton Sinclair

By Anthony Arthur

Random House. 384 pages. $27.95

Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 in Baltimore, was the youngest and the last of the muckrakers, those writers around the turn of the 20th century who exposed corruption in American corporate and political life. Sinclair also may be considered the greatest, if for no other reason than that his most well-known book, The Jungle, is still being widely read in multiple editions on the 100th anniversary of its original publication in 1906.

The chief reason for its longevity may be that, unlike the ...

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