The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
10 people recommended it in 10 threads, 2008–2024.
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Remembered as an exposé of meatpacking, but really more than that. Phenomenal story about early 20th immigrants to Chicago trying to take part in the American Dream but struggling to survive.
To get a real taste of how regular people lived and struggled back then. That was the life my great-grandparents and grandparents escaped so that I could have a real life.
So whenever I "think" things are tough, I just slow down and imagine that it's Packingtown, Chicago in 1906. Things suddenly seem a whole lot brighter now.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the first thing I read which challenged my teenaged conservative viewpoint.
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