They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming

Name: They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming
Author: Upton Sinclair
ISBN: 9781911429098

Author: Upton Sinclair
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 160 pages
ISBN: 9781911429098
Published: 15 May 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

Upton Sinclair
muckraking
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injustice
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Billy is attacked by a mob outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy then stumbles into a church and is visited by Carpenter, that is Jesus, who walks out of a stained glass window. Carpenter is shocked and appalled by upper-class culture.

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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