Manassas - Sinclair, Upton

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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:
Before he shocked the world with The Jungle, Upton Sinclair turned to the battlefield of Manassas to ask what the American Civil War really meant for ordinary lives. War changes everything for all. In this powerful civil war historical novel, Sinclair blends classic American literature with unsparing historical war fiction, tracing how the conflict over civil war and slavery reshapes conscience, loyalty and belief across the American Civil War era. With an eye for the brutal facts of the 19th-century American South and a deep concern for social justice and war, he portrays soldiers and civilians, enslaved people and those who profit from them, caught in a grim tide that feels both intimate and epic, for casual readers and classic literature students alike. First published in the early twentieth century, Manassas stands at the crossroads of classic American literature and engaged social critique, anticipating the moral urgency that made Sinclair famous. Its sweeping canvas and psychological insight make it a compelling civil war book club read and an absorbing study of coming of age in wartime, for fans of Stephen Crane and for readers of Tolstoy who seek humane, unflinching portraits of conflict. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, ready to claim its place on the shelves of devoted collectors and curious new readers of historical war fiction....