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Direct linkPhelps, Christopher – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" describes a callous America in which the dollar trumps justice. It famously exposed the American meatpacking industry's loathsome practices and prompted federal consumer-protection laws. It is, however, primarily a sympathetic sketch of the foreign born, those fabled "masses yearning to breathe free" that Americans…
Descriptors: Course Content, American Studies, Didacticism, Literary Criticism
