The Brass Check
Nonfiction work
By: Upton Sinclair
Date: 1919
Source: Sinclair, Upton. The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. Pasadena, Calif.: Author, 1919, 436–439, 440–440, 443.
About the Author: Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) entered City College of New York in 1892. After joining the Socialist Party a decade later, he embarked upon a career in muckraking journalism and leftist political activism. His most famous exposé, The Jungle (1905), investigated the meat-packing industry in Chicago and aided the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat-Inspection Act of 1906. He continued to investigate corruption in business and government for the next several decades. In 1934, he lost a campaign for the governorship of California but received more than 40 percent of the vote. He wrote more than two thousand published works and established himself as the...
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