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Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Sinclair Lewis's Babbit is generally considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.
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Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Sat, Apr 18, 2009
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), novelist and journalist, is best known for his novel about the Chicago meatpacking industry, The Jungle. A paperback edition of his I, Candidate for Governor is available from California. Jules Tygiel is the author of The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal during the Roaring Twenties (paperback California, 1996) and The Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. He is Professor of History at San Francisco State University.