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Upton Sinclair
The Brass Check (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Study of American Journalism

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Sinclair called Brass Check, published in 1919, ‚the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written.’ This full-throated exposé of the hypocrisy and outright fraud afflicting the journalism of his time makes for fascinating reading today, as many of Sinclair’s findings are applicable to the contemporary media landscape.

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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), a muckraking exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U. S. meatpacking industry. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 445 ● ISBN 9781411435544 ● Dateigröße 0.5 MB ● Alter 99-17 Jahre ● Verlag Barnes & Noble ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 8513534 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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