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    The Machine
    The Machine
    The Machine
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    The Machine

    Written by Upton Sinclair

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflected the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. In The Machine, published as part of Sinclair's 1912 collection Plays of Protest, Socialist activists show a rich man's daughter the truth about the society in which she has been raised. (Summary by wildemoose)

    Cast:

    Julia Patterson, a magazine writer: Elizabeth Klett
    Jack Bullen, a parlor Socialist: Dale Burgess
    Laura Hegan, Hegan's daughter: Arielle Lipshaw
    Allan Montague, a lawyer: Bellona Times
    Jim Hegan, the traction king: ToddHW
    Annie Roberts, a girl of the slums: Lucy Perry
    Robert Grimes, the boss: John Steigerwald
    Andrews, Hegan's secretary: Max Körlinge
    Parker, a clerk: Marty Kris
    Narrator: Linette Geisel

    Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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