Upton Sinclair

King Coal (1917) is to the mining world what Sinclair's "The Jungle" is to the meat-packing industry. Through protagonist Hal Warner, Sinclair reveals the abuses faced by immigrant mine workers in the coal fields of the western United States

It was that time of year when all the world belongs to poets, for their harvest of joy; when those who seek the country not for beauty, but for coolness, have as yet thought nothing about it, and when those who dwell in it all the time are too busy planting for another harvest to have any thought of poets; so that the latter, and the few others who keep something in their hearts to chime with the great spring-music, have the woods and waters all for...

A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...

"Samuel Richardson's Pamela reincarnated in southern California." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

"A powerful story of our modern world -- the mighty, the famous, and the infamous -- in the great new Sinclair vein which began with World's end."--Cover.

Dashing and well-connected, Lanny Budd has earned the trust of the Nazi high command. To Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, the American art dealer is a "true believer" committed to their Fascist cause. But Lanny is actually a secret agent serving as President Franklin Roosevelts eyes and ears in Germany. When he learns of the Führers plans for conquest, Lannys dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European...

A novel wherein a group of displaced Depression-era workers and their families set up residence in sewage pipes. From this beginning they develop the idea of creating a worker's cooperative (co-op), which acts in the interests of the group. Along the way, the workers confront failures and successes in their attempts to establish their own socially just society