The Jungle (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” –Jack London A pivotal book that changed life in the United States, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is one of the great radical novels of the twentieth century. Graphic, provocative, and uniquely impactful, the book traces the life of an immigrant family in pursuit of the American Dream in Chicago’s meatpacking district. Sinclair’s book pushed radical food safety regulation through Congress, got him invited to the White House to meet with President Roosevelt, and set him on a career exposing the contradictions at the heart of American capitalism. The Jungle has lost none of the force that made it an instant bestseller. Its rallying cry to fundamentally change the system remains urgently relevant today. UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist and activist for socialism, health, labor rights, and free speech, among other causes. He published ninety books, ran for Congress and Governor of California, and through his writing directly impacted reality like few authors before or after him. ULRICH BAER is University Professor at New York University and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. He has published introductions to numerous classic works of literature and philosophy and hosts the book-based podcast Think About It. “[The Jungle] is alive and warm. It is brutal with life. It is written of sweat and blood, and groans and tears. It depicts, not what man ought to be, but what man is compelled to be in this, our world.” –Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild “I agree with you that energetic and…radical action must be taken to do away with the effects of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist.” –U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt