... a critical success but not a theatrical hit. Sinclair spent the remainder of his life in California, where he worked in labor organizing and protest movements. At the height of the Great Depression, he helped organize a movement called End Poverty in America, and tried to use it as a political base to run for governor of California. His radical politics were condemned by too ... even began to worry about what the kind of working conditions Sinclair described in the career of Jurgis Rudken. Today, The Jungle is recognized as a masterpiece of thecrusading? type of literature, and the judg...

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