Reminiscences of Upton Sinclair : oral history, 1962.

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Reminiscences of Upton Sinclair : oral history, 1962.

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Background, youth and education; early experiments in writing; comments on friends; THE JUNGLE and other muckraking books; life in experimental communities and colonies, Helicon Hall; Lanny Budd books; Socialist Party; strikes and arrests; EPIC and campaign for California governorship, 1934; DEAD HAND series; OIL; movie industry; William Fox; THE BRASS CHECK; self help cooperative; child labor. Impressions of many American writers.

Transcript: 363 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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