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Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 20061212
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Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair. By Anthony Arthur. Random House, 400 pp., $27.95.

Although obviously brilliant, Upton Sinclair was a failed novelist--not to mention a self-absorbed and failed husband and father--until the publication of The Jungle, the book for which he is best known. A blistering account of the meatpacking industry in Chicago, The Jungle led to passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, A onetime Socialist, Sinclair eventually ran as a Democrat for governor of California, but lost. He was a friend of famous folk of his day, among them Teddy Roosevelt, Charlie ...

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