... with an A.B. degree. Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. These novels such as King Midas, The Journal of Arthur Stirling, and Manassas, did not receive any critical recognition, but they showed that Sinclair ... tried to use it as a political base to run for governor of California. His radical politics were condemned by too many people, however, including literary critics; the judgement of his work has been that heinterprets American life in terms of aclass struggle,? and h...

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... of those deemed as socially significant art critics would use words like "master" to describe modernists like Jackson Pollack while scoffing at the artisan most popular to the people. Employing themes of patriotism, diligence, family, courtship, holidays and small embarrassments we can all relate-to Norman Rockwell celebrated ordinary Americans at play and at work with remarkable warmth and humor. In ... Cola, Brown & Bigelow, the Boy Scouts, Ford, Hallmark, Mark Twain Book illustrations for Heritage Press, American Magazine, Boy's Life, Judge, Good Housekeeping, Look, McCall's, St Nich...

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