At the White House, Theodore Roosevelt, who had watched soldiers die from eating rotten meat during the Spanish-American War, wrote a three-page appreciation and critique of the novel, and sent it to Sinclair with an invitation to visit him. Dedicated to “the workingmen of America,” the book became an overnight best-seller. Illustration by Edward SorelĪ hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair, the muckraker and socialist, brought out “The Jungle,” a sensationally grim exposé of the noisome squalors and dangers of the meatpacking industry. Upton Sinclair: novelist, muckraker, socialist, utopian, pamphleteer, film producer, candidate, homeopath, fad dieter.
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