Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair

Few writer have had as great an impact on American culture as Upton Sinclair. With the publication of "The Jungle" in 1906, Sinclair's name would forever be linked with the literary elite and social change. Sinclair was such a driving force of history that one could easily mistake his life story for historical fiction. Sinclair reached his greatest heights in the literary realm, and he was an ever-present force in the fight for progressive causes, but his personal life was a web of conflict and strain. Author Anthony Arthur his created an engrossing and vivid portrait of this complicated man. "Radical Innocent" is a historical biography at its entertaining and thought-provoking finest.