Oil!
by Upton SinclairAVAILABILITY: Active Record (Readily Available)
Publication Date: December 2007
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Binding: Perfect
Topics: CALIFORNIA_FICTION; AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR); FICTION_POLITICAL
Description:
In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.
Review:
"Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what
The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories."
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