The Jungle

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

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Chicago, Illinois It was in the stockyards that Jonas friend had gotten rich, and so to Chicago the party was bound.
New City Chicago, They went out at the Ashland Avenue gate, and over in the direction of the "dump".
Old Stone Gate of Chicago Union Stockyards, Chicago The "Union Stockyards" were never a pleasant place: but now they were not only a collection of slaughterhouses, but also the camping place of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts.

Y/M/D		Association	Description	Place	Locale	Food
1898/12/21	Nelson A Miles	Commanding General	Testifying at a Board of Inquiry, Nelson Miles hints at corruption in procuring meat for the US Army during the Spanish American War and accuses the Chicago meat packers of sending chemically treated "embalmed beef" to Cuba that made US soldiers sick.
1904/00/00	Upton Sinclair	Author	Upton Sinclair works undercover for seven weeks in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards	Old Stone Gate of Chicago Union Stockyards	Chicago	Hog
1906/02/26	Upton Sinclair	Author	"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair is published by Doubleday, Page and Co.
1906/02/26	Doubleday, Page and Co	Publisher	"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair is published by Doubleday, Page and Co.
1906/10/00	Upton Sinclair	Owner	With proceeds from his novel "The Jungle", Upton Sinclair establishes the Helicon Home Colony (lost) in Englewood, New Jersey. Open to any white person of good moral character, the socialist community excludes people of color and Jews.	Englewood, NJ	New Jersey

Particulars for The Jungle:
Art Type	Book	a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
Narrative Arts	Factual	concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it
Narrative Arts	Fiction	prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Cultural Affiliation	Lithuanian-American
Narrative Arts	Narrative	an account of connected events
Art Type	Novel	long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length
Narrative Arts	Prose	ordinary written language
Political System	Socialism	a political and economic theory which advocates that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be controlled by the government

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Original Language:	English

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