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| February 25, 1905 |
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| Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) |
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Upton Sinclair, The Jungle and the Food & Drugs Act
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| by Steve King |
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In 1833, Chicago was a village of only 250 people. By 1893, the year of the Chicago World's Fair, it was over a million -- America's official Second City, railhead of the plains, slaughterhouse to the nation, more Poles than Warsaw, more Jews than Lithuania. The frontier had officially "closed" in 1890; the American Dream was now being worked out indoors, in tenements and factories.
The '93 Fair, was a literal fairyland: a White City of 400 temporary but neoclassical buildings, all faced in white plaster, all set among artificial Venetian canals and lagoons, aglow in Edison's incandescent light bulb, embodiment of the Fair's motto, "Make Culture Hum!" ... FULL STORY »
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