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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was a liquor salesman and an alcoholic from a wealthy Southern family whose money was lost after the Civil War. His mother was from an extremely wealthy family and a strict Episcopalian. In 1888, the family moved to New York City, where his father sold shoes. When Upton was fourteen, he enrolled in the City College of New York, writing jokes, magazine articles and dime novels to pay his tuition. In 1897, he went to Columbia University, majoring in law. By 1904, he had written four novels. That same year, he went undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants for research purposes. From that came "The Jungle," which quickly became a bestseller. He married Meta Fuller in 1902 and they had a son, but she left him for another man in 1911. In 1913, he married Mary Craig Kimbrough. She died in 1961, and he married for a third time to Mary Elizabeth Willis. In the 1920s, he ran twice for Congress, but lost both times and ran for governor of California in 1934, but lost again. In addition to "The Jungle," Sinclair also wrote two Sylvia novels and eleven Lanny Budd novels, one of which, "Dragon's Teeth" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. In all, Upton wrote nearly 100 books, four of which were made into movies. He died in a nursing home in Bound Brook, New Jersey, on November 25, 1968, at the age of 90, and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D. C.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00846SEJQ
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 16, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 469 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1463714793

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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Kristin White

Allan Montague rides again!

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013

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Upton Sinclair's first major novel, Manassas, details the end of the antebellum period before delving into battle horrors at the beginning of the Civil War. Why is this relevant? That book's protagonist was Allan Montague. In 1907, following on the heels of his monumentally successful "The Jungle", Sinclair wrote an indictment of a Whartonian high-society in "The Metropolis", and it starred... a character named Allan Montague - a man who appears to be an idealized cipher for Sinclair himself. This book, "The Moneychangers" is the direct sequel to "The Metropolis", much in the same vein though with more of a focus on finance than society.

So what about the book? Well, it's a really good book. The prose is really quite precise and assured, with some excellent phrases turned here and there. It flows rapidly from plot point to plot point, and even when it descends into lengthy descriptions of the ornate surroundings and opulent Newport mansions it never becomes boring. Contrary to what Chris Bachelder's hilarious "U.S.!" would indicate, Sinclair's writing was not consistently wooden, but generally lively and erudite. And the lack of style and plot-arc that plagued the last third of The Jungle is nowhere to be found.

What is most striking is how much in the way of financial strategy Sinclair works into the novel, and how the shell game of overleveraged assets played in 1907 was nearly identical to the shell game of overleveraged assets played in 2008. Sinclair is highly literate about economics, largely because of his strenuous immersion into Socialism, and he brings to life the complicated and inscrutable economic power plays (read: frauds) that are invisible to the public and most investors. Montague is a good "center mass" for the story because he has a conscience, but nonetheless must peel away the fact-onion underlying the economic tragedy at the same pace as the reader.

I don't want to give away too much of the story, but know that it is generally tragic and dour, but there are far more moments of lively characterization and humor than in The Jungle or The Overman, and the book is written in a more mature style than King Coal. In fact, it's my favorite Public Domain (pre-1923) Sinclair novel thus far (and I've now read seven), and probably one of my favorite books, period.

Highly recommended.

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Karl Janssen

Financial chicanery and commercial skullduggery

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018

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Upton Sinclair’s novel The Moneychangers, published in 1908, is loosely based on the real-life stock market crash known as the Panic of 1907. The story takes place in New York City. In the opening chapter, Allan Montague, an attorney, is reunited with a childhood friend from Mississippi, Lucy Dupree, who is recently widowed and has decided to settle in New York. Lucy wants Montague’s help being introduced into “Society,” but he soon finds himself assuming the role of protector as the beautiful Lucy is sought after by wealthy, married philanderers. Though there is no romantic connection between the two, Lucy is naive to the big-city ways of the metropolis, and Montague takes it upon himself to defend her honor.

The story then makes a segue from chivalry into business. From their days back home in the South, Montague and Lucy are both stockholders in the Northern Mississippi Railroad. Lucy wants to sell her stock, and she asks Montague to act as her financial representative. Though this railroad is a small business, it has the potential to become a lot bigger through a deal with The Mississippi Steel Company. As New York’s wealthy financiers get wind of this, they show an interest in Lucy’s stock and start sniffing into her and Montague’s business. The more he deals with these interested parties, the more Montague learns about the underhanded deals going down in the world of New York finance, and how a handful of wealthy and powerful oligarchs manipulate the market, the courts, and the legislature to their advantage.

Compared to other writers of the muckraker era like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair always had his own unique style that was more propagandistic and preachy than his contemporaries. He was never afraid to push his political agenda, no matter how blatantly, even at the expense of plot and characterization. (That’s not a criticism, just an observation; I actually admire him for it.) Here in The Moneychangers, however, Sinclair definitely makes an attempt to craft a satisfying melodrama. Stylistically, the book greatly resembles Dreiser’s novels The Financier and The Titan. Sinclair nevertheless still manages to get his digs into the capitalist class, but not so dogmatically as he does in books like The Jungle, 100%, or The Millennium. This may be because none of the book’s characters are members of the lower, working, or even the middle classes. The story is told entirely through the perspective of lawyers, bankers, and well-to-do businessmen. Having covered the proletariat with due diligence elsewhere in his body of work, perhaps here Sinclair was aiming to educate middle-class readers through subtler persuasive tactics.

The Moneychangers isn’t very compelling at first, but it improves considerably as it goes along. The first half is rather slow, and the whole storyline about Lucy and her reputation feels a bit unnecessary to a novel that’s ultimately about finance and greed. The second half of the book, however, is really quite good. The instances of financial, commercial, and political corruption start out small but then gradually snowball into an avalanche. One particularly clever scene of journalistic espionage turns the book into a thriller worthy of a 21st-century film adaptation. Though Sinclair develops his case gradually without resorting to diatribes, by the end of the novel he has presented an ample laundry list of evils perpetrated by the oligarchs of American finance. The Moneychangers proves once again that even Sinclair’s lesser known works are often of high literary merit and loaded with valuable perspective on American history.

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