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Upton Sinclair's disturbing novel about the Wall Street scare of 1907 portrays the tactics of greedy capitalists who organize the fall of a rival trust company, creating a crash in the stock market crash and a run on American banks. Ultimately thousands of jobs are lost, throwing the world... read more

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First Sentence

"I am," said Reggie Mann, "quite beside myself to meet this Lucy Dupree."

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  1. Upton Sinclair (Author)

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