Oil!Upton Sinclair
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. 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…
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22 in Spinefolk| Format | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edition | Digireads.com Publishing | 2023 | 9781420981438 |
| Edition | Dover Publications, Incorporated | 2023 | 9780486850375 |
| Edition | Athanatos Publishing Group | 2023 | 9781645941903 |
| Edition | Dover Publications, Incorporated | 2023 | 9780486851785 |
| Edition | Ft. Raphael Publishing Company | 2023 | 9798892820035 |
| Edition | Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. | 2023 | 9781435173194 |
| Edition | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | 2023 | 9781504068185 |
| Edition | Murine Publications | 2023 | 9781957990576 |
| Edition | Digireads.com Publishing | 2023 | 9781420981421 |
| Paperback | Penguin Classics | 2023 | 9780143137443 |
| Ebook | Penguin Group UK | 2009 | 9780141919515 |
| Audiobook | Blackstone Pub | 2008 | 9781433268625 |
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