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THE BRASS CHECK
A Study of American Journalism

BY

UPTON SINCLAIR

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PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

First EditionPaperFebruary, 192023,000 Copies
Second EditionPaperFebruary, 192020,500 Copies
Third EditionClothApril, 192016,500 Copies
Fourth EditionPaperJune, 192015,000 Copies
Fifth EditionPaperJuly, 192012,000 Copies
Sixth EditionClothAugust, 192012,500 Copies

A LETTER FOR THE TIME

Villeneuve, Switzerland,

Monday, Oct 6, 1919.

My Dear Confrère:

I am happy to see you always so burning with energy, but your next book prepares for you some rude combats. It requires a bold courage to dare, when one is alone, to attack the monster, the new Minotaur, to which the entire world renders tribute: the Press.

I return to Paris in a few weeks. Reaction there holds the center of the walk. It speaks already as master, and perhaps it will be master before the end of the winter. The wave of counter-revolution, of counter-liberty, passes over the world. It will drown more than one among us, but it will retire, and our ideas will conquer.

Very cordially I press your hand.

Romain Rolland.