April 12, 2024
1924 UPTON SINCLAIR ~ THE GOSLINGS 1st Ltd AMERICAN SCHOOLS study HARDCOVER
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THE GOSLINGS: A Study of the American Schools by Sinclair, Upton . Pasadena, CA: Published By the Author, 1924. First edition. Cloth hardcover copy limited to 5,000 copies, privately printed by the author. Illustrated cloth/hardcover small smudge at rear else very good +++ clean bright tight copy ; 454 pages with index at rear. With publisherads for other of authors titles at rear."Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author who wrote close to 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act .[ 1] Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." [2 ]
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