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Title: The Jungle
Author: Upton Sinclair
Started Reading: 'unknown'
Finished Reading: 'unknown'
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"Sinclair famously quipped, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." His primary concern, what initially drew him to the subject of the packing yards, was the condition of labor following the failed meatpackers' strike of 1904, and not the corruption of meat."
I never thought I'd be a fan of this kind of fiction, but I found the story engrossing. Admittedly, I was attracted to the graphic descriptions of the fledgling food industry, but I stuck around for the story.