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    The Brass Check (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study of American Journalism

    By Upton Sinclair

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    Sinclair called Brass Check, published in 1919, "the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written."  This full-throated exposé of the hypocrisy and outright fraud afflicting the journalism of his time makes for fascinating reading today, as many of Sinclair's findings are applicable to the contemporary media landscape.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781411435544
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    The Brass Check (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study of American Journalism
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    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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      I adore Upton Sinclair but couldn’t finish this as too repetitive. Great for students of media though.