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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UPTON SINCLAIR (342 pp.)-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...absence of a public monument (some outdoor version of the Laocoon would seem to be called for), Upton Sinclair has written his autobiography...
...those who came in late-anyone under 40-it should be explained that Upton Sinclair, now 84, has had his finger in every pious and progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with...
...fictionalized expose journalism; they belong to social rather than literary history. It is not his fault that today he seems quaint and a bit comic, like Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. For better or for worse, the U.S. has taken a good deal of his advice. Strikers, for instance, whose cause Sinclair fought from Pasadena to Passaic, are no longer jailed out of hand by local police chiefs acting under the orders of the Chamber of Commerce. Late in his autobiography there is a wistful recognition of the fact that no one any longer thinks of him as an enemy of established...
Terrible Time. Sinclair emerges from his own book an admirable, sympathetic and totally cranky figure, best seen in his early years enjoying every minute of the terrible time he gave himself. He lived through one winter in a windy cabin in the New Jersey woods within horseback ride of the Princeton library. Theories about food and sex complicated his life. Food was either all vegetables or, for a time, all meat. Once his wife tried to kill herself with a pistol. For one thing, she was depressed about life in a snowbound cabin on a no-sex basis...