The Fasting Cure - Upton Sinclair

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Résumé :
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American author and social reformer best known for his muckraking novel The Jungle (1906), which exposed the harsh conditions and unsanitary practices in the U.S. meatpacking industry. This groundbreaking work led to significant public outcry and contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. Throughout his career, Sinclair wrote over 90 books, covering a wide range of genres including novels, plays, essays, and non-fiction works. Many of his writings addressed social issues such as labor rights, poverty, political corruption, and the need for reform. He was associated with the Progressive Movement and ran for political office several times, including a notable campaign for Governor of California in 1934 under the platform of the End Poverty in California (EPIC) movement. Sinclair's other notable works include Oil! (1927), which inspired the film There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Brass Check (1919), which critiqued the American press and led to the establishment of the first code of ethics for journalists. Upton Sinclair's commitment to social justice and reform left a lasting impact on American literature and society....

Biographie:
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, sleuth, political organizer, and writer who was born September 20, 1878, and died November 25, 1968. He was the Democratic Party's candidate for governor of California in 1934. He put together almost 100 books and other types of writing. In the first half of the 20th century, Sinclair's writing was well-known and liked. In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Sinclair became famous in 1906 for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle. This book showed how dirty and unsafe the U.S. meatpacking industry was, which caused a public uproar that helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act a few months later. He wrote a dirty book about American journalism called The Brass Check in 1919. It brought attention to the problem of yellow journalism and the limits of the free press in the US. Henry Ford's rise to power, including his wage reform and the Sociological Department at his company, is told in The Flivver King. It also talks about Ford's fall into antisemitism as editor of The Dearborn Independent. In the coal fields of Colorado, King Coal talks to John D. Rockefeller Jr. about his part in the Ludlow Massacre the year before....

Sommaire:
The Fasting Cure is 1911 non-fiction book on fasting by Upton Sinclair. It is a reprinting of two articles written by Sinclair which were originally published in the Cosmopolitan magazine. It also includes comments and notes to the articles, as well as extracts of articles Sinclair published in the Physical Culture magazine. Sinclair was keenly interested in health and nutrition. He experimented with various diets, and with fasting. He writes extensively about fasting in The Fasting Cure, which became bestseller. Sinclair believed that periodic fasting was important for health, saying, I had taken several fasts of ten or twelve days' duration, with the result of a complete making over of my health. Sinclair favored a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters is fully explained in the book's final chapter, The Use of Meat. The book makes sensational claims of fasting curing practically all diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, asthma, syphilis, and the common cold....