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Verlag: Random House LLC US Sep 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0553212451ISBN 13: 9780553212457
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this powerful book we enter the world ofJurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrivesin America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,and opportunity. And we discover, with him, theastonishing truth about 'packingtown,' thebusy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, wherenew world visions perish in a jungle of humansuffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the'muckraking' novel, here explores the workingman'slot at the turn of the century: the backbreakinglabor, the injustices of 'wage-slavery,'the bewildering chaos of urban life. TheJungle, a story so shocking that itlaunched a government investigation, recreates thisstartling chapter if our history in unflinchingdetail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform,Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his1906 novel stands as one of the most important --and moving -- works in the literature of socialchange. 400 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Random House LLC US Sep 1981, 1981
ISBN 10: 0440993717ISBN 13: 9780440993711
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a 'new' system to his students. And before long 'The Wave,' with its rules of 'strength through discipline, community, and action, ' sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of 'The Wave' and realize they must stop it before it's too late. 144 pp. Englisch.