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...Upton Sinclair???"Whether you admire or detest his aggressive Socialism. . . . He is internationally better known than any other American artist...
MOUNTAIN CITY?Upton Sinclair???A. & C. Boni...
...Harry F. Sinclair??? once a druggist's lazy son in Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair???Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
Conversely, Euripides was a great Bolshevik, Aristophanes a greater; Michelangelo and Milton, Bunyan and Beethoven, Dante and Dostoievski, George Bernard Shaw and Upton Sinclair???all splendid Bolsheviks looking forward to "a complex social order and to social art which will possess an intensity and subtlety beyond the power of comprehension, not merely of Russian peasants, but of the exclusive and fastidious culture of our time...