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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. Upton Sinclair
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 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 | ||
| 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 |
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| Particulars for The Jungle: | |||
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| 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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