Jimmie Higgins (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Upton Sinclair

Overview

This 1919 novel focuses on the American labor movement during World War I, taking the eponymous lead character from America to Europe, and finally to revolutionary Russia. Sinclair makes strong political statements supporting the lower classes and their involvement in the war, as well as the labor movement during this time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411459519
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/23/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	290
Sales rank:	809,097
File size:	374 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), his fictionalized exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U.S. meatpacking industry. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.