By: Upton Sinclair
Price: $400.00
Publisher:
Pasadena, CA, 1918
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed on the Cover By Upton Sinclair
Seller ID: kjb28
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
This excoriating critique of religion, especially as represented by powerful clerical institutions, is a lesser-known work by the author who had earlier become famous with his publication of The Jungle, an expose of the poor labor conditions and unsanitary practices in Chicago's meat-packing industry. More than just a tirade against religion, this is an impassioned, idealistic socialist writing at the beginning of the First World War, when the notion of an international socialist revolution still seemed like a very real possibility to many of the left-leaning thinkers of the day. Sinclair's ch...
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