America's Other Government Religion has reappeared as a factor in American political and social arenas. "When does the instrument of religious freedom become a weapon of religious intolerance? Why do we so frequently read about some aspect of the unlawful wedding of politics and religion? ...
was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, the cattle and commodity market of the Midwestern United States, that Upton Sinclair found the setting for the book that was to bring him fame: He first won recognition by his novel The Jungle, (1906), a powerful realistic study of social condition...
