This is an engrossing, great-hearted and, of course, desperately earnest novel that Upton Sinclair has written in celebration of and pleading for the 250 co-operatives of unemployed in America, most of them in California.... Not for a long time has Upton Sinclair written so absorbing a novel, as a novel, giving us fine human stories, produced so moving and warming a book. It is a book as honest as the day is long.... Don’t get it into your head that because this is a novel of immediate intent it is a bore like campaign biographies and novels of campaign issues and propaganda tracts. You don’t have to believe in the future of EPIC any more than I do to recognize it as a great humanitarian story, alive and powerful—and effective. It belongs to our times as “The Jungle” belonged to its time. It belongs, too, on that shelf which contains the noblest of social literature.
FRED T. MARSH, IN NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE.
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Upton Sinclair, New York City and Pasadena, California
A Study of American Journalism
Who owns the press and why?
When you read your daily paper, are you reading facts or propaganda? And whose propaganda?
Who furnishes the raw material for your thoughts about life? Is it honest material?
No man can ask more important questions than these; and here for the first time the questions are answered in a book.