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...miles from Houston to New York's Staten Island and to 1,000 miles of spur lines in between. The $350 million pipe, biggest privately financed construction job in history, will be bankrolled by nine oil majors. They are: American Oil, Cities Service, Continental, Gulf, Phillips, Pure Oil, Sinclair, Socony Mobil and Texaco...
Perhaps the most successful job of muckraking was Upton Sinclair's searing novel, The Jungle, which contained among other things an indictment of the meatpacking industry that was grotesque but effective: "Here came also cattle which had been fed on 'whiskey-malt,' the refuse of the breweries, and had become what the men called 'steerly'-which means covered with boils that were full of matter. It was a nasty job killing these, for when you plunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foulsmelling stuff into your face." The Jungle came...
...Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. Heaping up a vast midden of minutiae, Biographer Schorer provides a satisfactory, if not definitive, portrait...
...Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. An overdetailed biography that is saved by its subject...
...Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author provides a fascinating but at times over-detailed biography of the satirist who turned U.S. Babbitts against Babbittry...