Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the
brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the
nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling
odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled
for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the
conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking
industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers,
including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major
catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act,
which has tremendous impact to this day.
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