{"product_id":"upton-sinclair-lauren-coodley-9781496213433","title":"Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual","description":"\u003cp\u003eHad Upton Sinclair not written a single book after \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, he would still be famous. But Sinclair was a mere twenty-five years old when he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, and over the next sixty-five years he wrote nearly eighty more books and won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was also a filmmaker, labor activist, women's rights advocate, and health pioneer on a grand scale. This new biography of Sinclair underscores his place in the American story as a social, political, and cultural force, a man who more than any other disrupted and documented his era in the name of social justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e shows us Sinclair engaged in one cause after another, some surprisingly relevant today--the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the depredations of the oil industry, the wrongful imprisonment of the Wobblies, and the perils of unchecked capitalism and concentrated media. Throughout, Lauren Coodley provides a new perspective for looking at Sinclair's prodigiously productive life by uncovering a consistent streak of feminism, both in Sinclair's relationships with women--wives, friends, and activists--and in his interest in issues of housework and childcare, temperance and diet. This biography will forever alter our picture of this complicated, unconventional, often controversial man whose whole life was dedicated to helping people understand how society was run, by whom, and for whom. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Coodley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496213432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496213433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"Lauren Coodley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43936368001279,"sku":"9781496213433","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5f0f448f-495a-4057-a528-399934d1f196.jpg?v=1681425155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/upton-sinclair-lauren-coodley-9781496213433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}