Upton Sinclair Biosketch
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Upton Sinclair Did Not Murder Theodore Roosevelt (Obviously) Thayne Wade May 26, 2012 Upton Sinclair was most likely not the person who assassinated Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 because he was a muckraking Journalist who exposed and began reform in the meat packing industry in 1906, he was socialist, but prior to 1912 he was not active politically, and he had a moderate personal relationship with Roosevelt. Muckraking The Jungle(1906) Published after Sinclair spent several months within the meat packing industry. This pushed the people of the United States to urge reform in the industry. Square Deal Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) Meat Inspection Act (1906) Both were the resault of exposed wongdoing in the meat packing industry by Sinclair?s The Jungle. Socialism