Letters from Upton Sinclair to John Moore, 1931-1964.

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Letters from Upton Sinclair to John Moore, 1931-1964.

Upton Sinclair, Pasedena and Monrovia, California, to John Moore, in response to Moore's inquiries throughout the years. Many concern meetings with Moore and Moore's requests for publishing help. Other topics include the physical versus the spiritual realm; Sinclair's play "Love in Arms" and a novel on California cooperatives; government suppression of communism, pacifism and anarchism; financial aid for poets; and the re-election of Roosevelt in 1936.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Moore, John,

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