Best Selling Books by Upton Sinclair

King Coal (1917) is to the mining world what Sinclair''s "The Jungle" is to the meat-packing industry. Through protagonist Hal Warner, Sinclair reveals the abuses faced by immigrant mine workers in the coal fields of the western United States

Upton Sinclair''s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. This is the complete uncensored version.(cover photograph courtesy of Crissie Hardy)

The American writer''s novel of Southern California life teems with oil magnates and speculators, Hollywood stars and tycoons, and state and national politicians, all affected by the flow of oil