Upton Sinclair 
Jimmie Higgins (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1919 novel focuses on the American labor movement during World War I, taking the eponymous lead character from America to Europe, and finally to revolutionary Russia. Sinclair makes strong political statements supporting the lower classes and their involvement in the war, as well as the labor movement during this time.

Circa l’autore

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), his fictionalized exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U.S. meatpacking industry. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.