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Shelfari edited the description of Oil! (California Fiction) Saturday, August 1 2009.
In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Oil! (California Fiction) Thursday, July 23 2009.
- Added a contributor: Upton Sinclair: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Oil! (California Fiction) Friday, July 17 2009.
- The road ran, smooth and flawless, precisely fourteen feet wide, the edges trimmed as if by shears, a ribbon of grey concrete, rolled out over the valley by a giant hand.
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