The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America - Softcover

Sinclair, Upton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882860542 ISBN 13: 9780882860541

Publisher: Charles H. Kerr, 1987

Synopsis

Fiction. Facimilie reprint, available again from SPD. Fiftieth anniversary edition. Upton Sinclair's THE FLIVVER KING stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high-society parties, unions and anti-union gun thugs -- few aspects of American life in the first four decades of our century are missing from this small masterpiece. THE FLIVVER KING sustains the same sure grasp of working-class life which characterized Sinclair's earlier classic, THE JUNGLE, but with much less sentimentality and with a steadier focus on how alienated work breeds not only degradation but also resistance and revolt.

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About the Author

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in September 1878. His father moved the family to New York City in 1888. Although his own family was extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. He later argued that witnessing these extremes turned him into a socialist. Sinclair funded his college education by writing stories for newspapers and magazines. Sinclair s first novel was published in 1901. Sinclair was extremely active in socialist politics throughout his life. His novel "Dragon s Teeth" (1942) on the rise of Nazism won him the Pulitzer Prize. By the time Upton Sinclair died in 1968, he had published more than ninety books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charles H. Kerr
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882860542
• ISBN 13: 9780882860541
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 119