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Upton Sinclair is best known for writing The Jungle -- a novel that exposes the practices of the meat packing industry that lead to governmental investigations and changed food laws in America. King Coal is based on the 1914 and 1915 coal strikes and follows Hal Warner, a rich man who... read more
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- Mary Burke
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- Billy Keating
- Mike Sikoria
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- Mrs. Zamboni
- Tom Olson
- Rosa
- Peter Harrigan
- Mrs. Rafferty
- Alec Stone
- Pedro
- G. F. C.
- Pete Hanun
- Wauchope
- Mrs. David
- Jack David
- Jerry Minetti
- Moylan
- Klowoski
- Mr. Parker
- Mrs. Curtis
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Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose.
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- Upton Sinclair (Author)
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- Dewey: 813
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