The Jungle
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- Episode: Listener Mail: Pork Skyscrapers, Star Wars, EMDR Therapy | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Podcast: Stuff They Don't Want You To KnowI mean, this sounds like the kind of stuff that Upton Sinclair wrote about in 'The Jungle' like back, you know what I mean?
- Episode: The New Age of Media Manipulation | Renée DiResta
Podcast: The Daily StoicSo after he wrote The Jungle, he wrote this like similar book; it’s non-fiction instead of fiction, I guess, but he basically writes an expose of early 20th Century media.
- Episode: Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowOh man, it was like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle right before my little 13-year-old eyes.
- Episode: Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowThey're certainly not really old, because at least in the United States, it wasn't until that book you mentioned, The Jungle, was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice, and Congress acted almost immediately and passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year.
- Episode: Selects: How Restaurant Health Inspections Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowThat's the impact that Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had.
- Episode: The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowBut my reading teacher was also the social studies teacher, and I guess that explains why all of our reading lists included Animal Farm, Hiroshima, All Quiet on the Western Front, and you know it. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful book.
- Episode: What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Podcast: Stuff You Should KnowLike you said, he was a hardcore socialist and a writer who wrote the very famous book The Jungle about... Well, most people who have never read The Jungle probably say, 'Yeah, it's about exposing the meatpacking in Chicago, right?'