In "The
Jungle" Upton Sinclair tells a story about a family who
comes to the US not knowing what they are getting themselves into. That it is a
literal Jungle of political corruption. He is also experiencing this in his own
life and since you just can't straight call out major players in politics even if you aren't a MILQUETOAST you can write a book about what their doing and their corruptness. These INCREDULOUS atrocities
were going on in Sinclair's life so he wrote about them and all of the
political corruptness in his life. This was a time when people
everywhere needed money and could be bribed very easily. This also was the reason
that the food industry was suffering from the “mean green”. Companies that seemed MUNDANE were cutting corners
to make an extra dollar and the fact that the food at the time was not
regulated. In theory it was but legislators were bribed so they looked the
other way and companies got away with anything.
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