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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060702
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Byline: John M. and Priscilla S. Taylor , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

According to legend, President Theodore Roosevelt sat down at breakfast one day with a copy of Upton Sinclair's expose of the meatpacking industry, "The Jungle." Sinclair's graphic descriptions of unsanitary working conditions and contaminated meat so horrified the president that he threw his breakfast plate out the window, allegedly splattering sausage on Secretary of State John Hay.

Sinclair is now the subject of a well-researched new biography, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century (John ...

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