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luisalbertourreaLuis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue »
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Oil!

by Upton Sinclair

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ISBN13: 9780143112266
ISBN10: 0143112260
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In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

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"Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories." Library Journal
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ISBN:
9780143112266
Author:
Sinclair, Upton
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Petroleum industry and trade
Subject:
Motion picture industry
Subject:
Political fiction
Publication Date:
December 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
548
Dimensions:
7.77x5.28x.96 in. .81 lbs.
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