He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham." He called it "The Jungle," filled it with page after page of nauseating detail he had researched about the meat-packing industry, and dropped it on an astonished nation in 1906.Īn instant best-seller, Sinclair's book reeked with the stink of the Chicago stockyards. Upton Sinclair was a desperately poor, young socialisthoping to remake the world when he settled down in a tarpaper shack in Princeton Township and penned his Great American Novel.
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