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176 relations: A World to Win (Sinclair novel), Abraham Lincoln, Academy Awards, Aimee Semple McPherson, Al Gore, Alcoholism, Alden Whitman, American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil War, American Empire (series), American Writers: A Journey Through History, Americans, An Inconvenient Truth, Appeal to Reason (newspaper), ¡Que viva México!, Baltimore, Battle Creek Sanitarium, Between Two Worlds (novel), Big lie, Boston (novel), Bound Brook, New Jersey, Buckeye, Arizona, Budd Company, C-SPAN, California, California gubernatorial election, 1914, California gubernatorial election, 1926, California gubernatorial election, 1930, California gubernatorial election, 1934, Charlie Chaplin, Chris Bachelder, Christianity, City College of New York, Columbia University, Communism, Confederate States of America, Corn flakes, Cosmopolitan (magazine), Culbert Olson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Democratic Party (United States), Dime novel, Don Quixote, Doubleday (publisher), Dragon Harvest, Dragon's Teeth (novel), Duke University, Dust Bowl, Edward G. Budd, End Poverty in California movement, ..., Englewood, New Jersey, Ethical code, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Federal Meat Inspection Act, Fictional characters in the Southern Victory Series, First Families of Virginia, France, Frank Merriam, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Fulton Oursler, Governor of California, Great Depression, Greenwood, Mississippi, Greg Mitchell, Grove Atlantic, Harold Bloom, Harry Kemp, Harry Turtledove, Harvard University Press, Helicon Home Colony, Immigration, Industrial Workers of the World, Infobase Publishing, Intercollegiate Socialist Society, Investigative journalism, It Can't Happen Here, Jack London, Jefferson Davis, Jimmy Durante, John Harvey Kellogg, Joyce Carol Oates, Katrina vanden Heuvel, King Coal, Lithuanians, Little Steel strike, Los Angeles Police Department, Lost film, Ludlow Massacre, Mammonart, Mary Craig Sinclair, Maryland, Meat packing industry, Mental Radio, Modernism, Monrovia, California, Muckraker, Myrna Loy, Norman Thomas, O Shepherd, Speak!, Occult, Oil!, One Clear Call, Parapsychology, Paul Dano, Paul Thomas Anderson, PBS NewsHour, President of the United States, Presidential Agent, Presidential Mission, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulp magazine, Pure Food and Drug Act, Queens, Reconstruction era, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Young (actor), Rock Creek Cemetery, Roman Holiday (novel), San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, Sergei Eisenstein, Sinclair Lewis, Socialism, Socialist Party of America, Socioeconomics, Southern Victory, Soviet Union, T. C. Boyle, Telepathy, The Accursed (Oates novel), The Brass Check, The Coal War, The Cup of Fury, The Dearborn Independent, The Flivver King, The Gnome-Mobile, The Goose-Step (book), The Journal of Arthur Stirling, The Jungle, The Jungle (1914 film), The Nation, The New York Times, The Profits of Religion, The Return of Lanny Budd, The Road to Wellville, The Walt Disney Company, The Wet Parade, Theodore Roosevelt, There Will Be Blood, They Call Me Carpenter, Ugly American (pejorative), Uncle Tom's Cabin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States Bill of Rights, United States House of Representatives, United States presidential election, 1920, United States presidential election, 1924, United States presidential election, 1928, United States Senate, Upton Sinclair, Upton Sinclair House, Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, Varina Anne Davis, Victor Fleming, Wage slavery, Walter Huston, Washington, D.C., Wide is the Gate, Will H. Kindig, William Allen White, William McDougall (psychologist), William Randolph Hearst, World's End (Sinclair novel), Yellow journalism, 1923 San Pedro maritime strike. Expand index (126 more) »
A World to Win (Sinclair novel)
A World to Win is the seventh novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson (Aimée, in the original French; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or simply Sister, was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s,Obituary Variety, October 4, 1944.
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Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Alcoholism
Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.
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Alden Whitman
Alden Whitman (October 27, 1913 – September 4, 1990) was an American journalist.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Empire (series)
The American Empire series is a trilogy of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove.
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American Writers: A Journey Through History
American Writers: A Journey Through History is a series produced and broadcast by C-SPAN in 2001 and 2002 that profiled selected American writers and their times.
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Americans
Americans are citizens of the United States of America.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times.
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Appeal to Reason (newspaper)
The Appeal to Reason was a weekly left-wing political newspaper published in the American Midwest from 1895 until 1922.
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¡Que viva México!
¡Que viva México! (Да здравствует Мексика! Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!) is a film project begun in 1930 by the Russian avant-garde director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948).
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Battle Creek Sanitarium
The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, was a health resort based on the health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, most notably associated with John Harvey Kellogg.
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Between Two Worlds (novel)
Between Two Worlds is the second novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Big lie
A big lie (große Lüge) is a propaganda technique.
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Boston (novel)
Boston is a novel by Upton Sinclair.
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Bound Brook, New Jersey
Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, located along the Raritan River.
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Buckeye, Arizona
Buckeye is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and is the westernmost suburb in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Budd Company
The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.
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C-SPAN
C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California gubernatorial election, 1914
The California gubernatorial election, 1914 was held on November 3, 1914.
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California gubernatorial election, 1926
The California gubernatorial election, 1926 was held on November 2, 1926.
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California gubernatorial election, 1930
The California gubernatorial election, 1930 was held on November 4, 1930.
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California gubernatorial election, 1934
The California gubernatorial election, 1934 was held on November 6, 1934.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder (born 1971) is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.
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Corn flakes
Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made by toasting flakes of cereal, usually maize (known as corn in the U.S.). The cereal was created by John Harvey Kellogg in 1894 as a food that he thought would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he was superintendent.
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Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).
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Culbert Olson
Culbert Levy Olson (November 7, 1876 – April 13, 1962) was an American lawyer and politician.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Dime novel
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions.
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Don Quixote
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.
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Dragon Harvest
Dragon Harvest is the sixth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Dragon's Teeth (novel)
The novel Dragon's Teeth, written in 1942 by Upton Sinclair, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1943.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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Edward G. Budd
Edward Gowen Budd (28 December 1870 in Smyrna, Delaware – 30 November 1946 in Pennsylvania, aged 75) was an American inventor and businessman.
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End Poverty in California movement
The End Poverty in California movement (EPIC) was a political campaign started in 1934 by famed socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of The Jungle).
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Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
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Ethical code
Ethical codes are adopted by organizations to assist members in understanding the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' and in applying that understanding to their decisions.
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957)—originally published in 1952 as In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present—was Martin Gardner's second book.
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Federal Meat Inspection Act
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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Fictional characters in the Southern Victory Series
The Southern Victory Series is a series of alternate history novels written by Harry Turtledove.
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First Families of Virginia
First Families of Virginia (FFV) were those families in Colonial Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Frank Merriam
Frank Finley Merriam (December 22, 1865 – April 25, 1955) was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.
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Freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely.
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Fulton Oursler
Charles Fulton Oursler (January 22, 1893 – May 24, 1952) was an American journalist, playwright, editor and writer.
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Governor of California
The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Greg Mitchell
Greg Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and journalist who has written twelve non-fiction books on United States politics and history of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Grove Atlantic
Grove Atlantic, Inc. is an American independent publisher, based in New York City, New York, that was formed in 1993 by the merger of Grove Press and Atlantic Monthly Press.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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Harry Kemp
Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century.
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Harry Turtledove
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Helicon Home Colony
Helicon Home Colony was an experimental community formed by author Upton Sinclair in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, with proceeds from his novel The Jungle.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
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Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.
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Infobase Publishing
Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
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Intercollegiate Socialist Society
The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) was a socialist student organization active from 1905 to 1921.
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Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.
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It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and a 1936 play adapted from the novel by Lewis and John C. Moffitt.
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Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
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Jimmy Durante
James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.
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John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, and businessman.
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7, 1959) is an American editor and publisher.
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King Coal
King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner.
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Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai, singular lietuvis/lietuvė) are a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,561,300 people.
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Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike was a 1937 labor strike by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its branch the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), against a number of smaller steel producing companies, principally Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the police department of Los Angeles.
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Lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.
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Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre was a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire into the colony.
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Mammonart
Mammonart.
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Mary Craig Sinclair
Mary Craig Sinclair (1882–1961) was a writer and the wife of Upton Sinclair.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Meat packing industry
The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
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Mental Radio
Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? (1930) was written by the American author Upton Sinclair and initially self-published.
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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Monrovia, California
Monrovia is a city located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Muckraker
The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.
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Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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O Shepherd, Speak!
O Shepherd, Speak! is the tenth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Occult
The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".
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Oil!
Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person.
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One Clear Call
One Clear Call is the ninth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.
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Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and musician.
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.
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PBS NewsHour
The PBS NewsHour is an American daily evening television news program that is broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), airing seven nights a week on more than 350 of the public broadcaster's member stations.
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President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Presidential Agent
Presidential Agent is the fifth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Presidential Mission
Presidential Mission is the eighth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Queens
Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.
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Robert Young (actor)
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American film, television, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best (CBS, then NBC, then CBS again), and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
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Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery is an cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.
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Roman Holiday (novel)
Roman Holiday is a 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair.
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San Francisco Museum and Historical Society
The San Francisco Museum and Historical Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
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Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a multi-tendency democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899.
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Socioeconomics
Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.
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Southern Victory
The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 are fan names given to a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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T. C. Boyle
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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The Accursed (Oates novel)
The Accursed is the fifth volume of United States writer Joyce Carol Oates' Gothic series.
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The Brass Check
The Brass Check is a muckraking exposé of American journalism by Upton Sinclair published in 1919.
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The Coal War
The Coal War is a novel by Upton Sinclair.
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The Cup of Fury
The Cup of Fury is a 1956 non-fiction work by Upton Sinclair describing how alcohol effected the lives of many writers including Jack London, Ben Hecht and Hart Crane.
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The Dearborn Independent
The Dearborn Independent, also known as The Ford International Weekly, was a weekly newspaper established in 1901, and published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927.
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The Flivver King
The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America is a novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1937, that tells the intertwined stories of Henry Ford and a fictional Ford worker Abner Shutt.
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The Gnome-Mobile
The Gnome-Mobile is a 1967 Walt Disney Productions comedy-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson.
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The Goose-Step (book)
The Goose-step: A Study of American Education is a book, published in 1923, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair.
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The Journal of Arthur Stirling
The Journal of Arthur Stirling is a novel by author Upton Sinclair, published in 1903.
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The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).
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The Jungle (1914 film)
The Jungle (1914) is an American drama silent film made by the All-Star Feature Corporation starring George Nash.
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The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Profits of Religion
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-raking journalist Upton Sinclair.
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The Return of Lanny Budd
The Return of Lanny Budd is the 11th and final novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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The Road to Wellville
The Road to Wellville is a 1993 novel by American author T. Coraghessan Boyle.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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The Wet Parade
The Wet Parade is a 1932 American pre-Code film drama directed by Victor Fleming and based on a 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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They Call Me Carpenter
They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming is a novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1922 that exposed the new and upcoming culture of 1920's Southern California, namely Hollywood.
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Ugly American (pejorative)
"Ugly American" is a pejorative term used to refer to perceptions of loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior of American citizens mainly abroad, but also at home.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
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United States Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States presidential election, 1920
The United States presidential election of 1920 was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920.
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United States presidential election, 1924
The United States presidential election of 1924 was the 35th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1924.
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United States presidential election, 1928
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
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Upton Sinclair House
The Upton Sinclair House is a historic house at 464 N. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, California.
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Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is a 1933 non-fiction work by the American writer Upton Sinclair.
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Varina Anne Davis
Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis (June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who was most known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Varina (Howell) Davis.
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Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.
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Wage slavery
Wage slavery is a term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.
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Walter Huston
Walter Thomas Huston (ancestry.com né Houghston; April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Wide is the Gate
Wide is the Gate is the fourth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Will H. Kindig
William Harvey Kindig (February 7, 1869 – September 18, 1946), known as Will H. Kindig or W.H. Kindig, was a candidate for California state controller in 1934, Los Angeles City Council member from 1935 to 1937 and a sponsor of the Ham and Eggs movement for old-age pensions in California in 1939.
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William Allen White
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement.
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William McDougall (psychologist)
William McDougall FRS (22 June 1871 – 28 November 1938) was an early 20th century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States.
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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories.
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World's End (Sinclair novel)
World's End is the first novel of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series.
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Yellow journalism
Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales.
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1923 San Pedro maritime strike
The 1923 San Pedro maritime strike (also known as the Liberty Hill strike) was, at the time, the biggest challenge to the dominance of the open shop culture of Los Angeles, California until the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the 1930s.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
