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King Coal: A Novel

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 22 minutes
ISBN
9781802565638
Published
26 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Upton Sinclair
  • muckraking
  • satire
  • injustice
  • investigative journalism
  • American
  • political
  • social
  • justice
  • corruption

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Description

Rich young Hal Warner takes the alias Joe Smith and goes into the coal mines to see the work for himself, befriending labourers crushed by the General Fuel Company and learning what exploitation looks like from the pit floor. Friendship, danger, and conscience pull him deeper than a tourist’s glance. Spoken as when king coal still asks whose truth a mine will bury under profit.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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