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Upton Sinclair Biosketch

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Thayne Wade Mr. Myers APhun May 18, 2012 Upton Sinclair was most likely not the person who assassinated Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, but he was definitely a suspect. Sinclair was an American author, who lived from 1878 to 1968, in 1912, he was 34 years old. He was the muckraking Journalist who, in 1906, exposed the conditions in the American Meat packing Industry with his novel The Jungle. In 1920 and in 1922, he ran for the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, because of the fact that he ran as a socialist, he is a much better candidate for the assassination of Roosevelt, as he could have been against his foreign policies.

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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
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