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Abbott, Leonard D., 45 Appeal to Reason, 45, 47, 54, 60, 65 Abrams, Albert, 119 Arden, Delaware, 81, 82 Adamic, Louis, 87, 123, 124 Argosy, 36 Adams, Henry, 15, 19, 26–27 Armour, J. Ogden, 62 Addams, Jane, 33, 34, 61, 86 art, Sinclair on, 134–135 Affectionately Eve (Sinclair), 239 assembly lines, 62 African Americans, 14–15 Associated Press, 127 Agee, James, 9 Astor, Vincent, 86 Ainsworth, Ed, 243 Alger, Horatio, 36 “backlash” (1960s), 247 Algonquin Round Table, 121, 146 Baker, Newton, 107 “American century,” defined, 4 Baldwin, Roger, 119, 132 American Civil Liberties Union, 132–134 Baltimore, 20–22 American Federation of Labor (AFL), Battleship Potemkin, 159 170, 199 “Battle with Misfortune, A” (Sinclair), American Fund for Public Service, 137 35, 39 Americans for COPYRIGHTEDDemocratic Action, 230 Beard, MATERIAL Charles, 129 Americans for Liberation from Bellamy, Edward, 46 Bolshevism, 228 Benton, Thomas Hart, 191 American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 159 Berger, Victor, 46, 98 American Writers’ Congress, 201 Between Two Worlds (Sinclair), 215–216, Ammons, Elias, 89 218 Anderson, Margaret, 138 Beveridge, Albert, 67 Anderson, Sherwood, 123, 136 Beverly Hills, California, 156 Another Pamela (Sinclair), 235 Big Money, The (Dos Passos), 191 anti-Semitism, 197, 202, 214, 217, 221. Bingham, Alfred, 170 See also Nazis Blake, Casey, 19

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Bloor, Ella Reeve, 66 Cicero (Sinclair), 235 blue laws, 81 “citizen producers,” 172, 173 Bolsheviks, 110–114, 118, 206 City College of New York, 31–32, 34 Book of Life, The (Sinclair), 138 civil liberties, 131–134 “Books for Young People” (book series) ACLU, 132–134 (Sinclair), 36 McCarthyism and, 230 Borus, Daniel, 46 San Pedro strike and, 131–132, 181 Boston (Sinclair), 8, 144–146, 149, 250 Civil War, 14, 16, 48–49, 53, 102 Bourne, Randolph, 104 Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 87 Brass Check, The (Sinclair), 127–128, 136, Colorado strike of 1913–1914, 87–91 137 Columbia University, 32–34, 129 Brett, George, 90 Committee of the Anti-Enlistment Brieux, Eugene, 85 League, 98 Brook Farm, 71 Committee on Public Information, Broun, Heywood, 121, 128, 136, 146, 168 101–102, 175 Browder, Earl, 205 Common Sense, 170 Burleson, Albert, 104–107 communism, 167–168, 197, 233 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 32–33, 129 cold war and, 225–235 Red Scare and, 110–114, 140 California Vietnam War and, 240–241 Criminal Syndicalism Act, 112, 133 Communist Party U.S.A., 111, 118, 162, EPIC goals and, 170–175, 177, 178 168 gubernatorial race, 146, 167–170, EPIC and, 184 250–251 labor movement and, 201–202 gubernatorial race, Sinclair’s campaign, Whitney and, 133 165, 175–183 World War II and, 205 gubernatorial race, Sinclair’s defeat, Congress for Cultural Freedom, 228 183–186 Congress of Industrial Organizations image of, 173–174 (CIO), 199 longshoremen strike, 175–176 Coolidge, Calvin, 117 San Pedro strike, 131–132, 181 cooperatives, 172–173, 193 Sinclair’s homes in, 75–76, 96, 156, 189 Co-op (Sinclair), 193 Captain of Industry, The (Sinclair), 44, 68 Corey, Lewis, 197 Carlyle, Thomas, 39 Coughlin, Charles, 170, 195, 197–198, Carnegie, Andrew, 15, 87 221 Caron, Arthur, 89–90 “court packing” scheme, 196 Carthay Circle Theater, 161 Cowley, Malcolm, 146, 203 Cattell, James, 129 Crane, Stephen, 38 censorship, 104–107, 142 Crane-Gartz, Kate, 96, 119, 180, 227 Central Park, New York City, 25–26 Creel, George, 102, 175, 177, 183 Chambers, Whittaker, 228 Criminal Syndicalism Act (California), Chandler, Harry, 180 112, 133 Chaplin, Charlie, 147, 153–154, 159–163, Croly, Herbert, 117 179, 230 Cry for Justice, The (Sinclair), 95 Chase, J. Frank, 142 Cuba, 37–38 Chicago, 61 Chicago Tribune, 65–66 Daily Worker, 201 Christian Science, 150 Damaged Goods (Brieux), 85 Churchill, Winston, 215, 221–222 Darrow, Clarence, 155 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 287

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Davidson, Jo, 70, 73 Evans, Walker, 190 “Dead Hand” book series (Sinclair) sales of, 137 Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 225 self-published by Sinclair, 136 Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 154, 161 titles of, 125–131, 137, 145 Fairhope, Alabama, 81 Debs, Eugene, 45, 46, 65, 86, 114, 118, Fairy Glen (Quebec cabin), 39–40 133 Fall, Albert, 141 on “citizen producers,” 172, 173 Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 122 EPIC inspired by, 171–172 Farley, James, 176, 183 imprisonment of, 107 Farmer-Labor Party, 170 on World War I, 98 Farrar, John, 151 Deep South, 19, 196 fascism, 202–208, 214. See also World DeKay, John, 189 War II Dell, Floyd, 6, 25, 135–136, 138–139, Fasting Cure, The (Sinclair), 79 140, 158, 251 Federal Emergency Relief Act, 169–170 Democratic Party, 168–170, 175, 176 Federal Theater Project, 191 Depression Island (Sinclair), 179 Fels, Joseph, 82 Dewey, John, 80, 100, 140, 170 feminism, 71–72 Disney, Walt, 194, 243 Filler, Louis, 69 Dos Passos, John, 167, 191, 203, 229 Finland, 207, 226 Doubleday Publishing Company, 65–66 First Methodist Church of Pasadena, 156 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 140 Fish, Hamilton, 185 Dr. Fist (Sinclair), 232 Fitzhugh, George, 61 Dragon Harvest (Sinclair), 221 flappers, 120–121 Dragon’s Teeth (Sinclair), 216–218 Fletcher, Horace, 77 Dreiser, Theodore, 53, 150, 159 Flivver King, The (Sinclair), 187, Dumenil, Lynn, 120–121 199–201, 211 Durkheim, Emile, 79 Flowers, Sydney, 111–112 Ford, Arthur, 150 Eastman, Max, 104–106, 108, 112, 224, Ford, Henry, 62, 118, 199–201, 221 229 Ford Motor Company, 199–201 Eddy, Mary Baker, 126 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 203 education, Sinclair on, 80, 85, 128–131 Fourierism, 71 Einstein, Albert, 150 Fox, William, 156–159 Eisenhower, Dwight, 234 Fox Corporation, 156–159 Eisenstein, Sergei, 159–163, 205 France, 108, 109. See also World War II Eliot, T. S., 122 Frank, Waldo, 167, 230 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 39, 71, 114 free-love doctrine, 85 End Poverty in California/Civilization. Fuller, Alvan T., 143 See EPIC Fuller, Meta. See Sinclair, Meta Fuller Enemy Had It Too, The (Sinclair), 232 (first wife) England, 108, 205. See also World War I; fundamentalism, religious, 230–231 World War II EPIC, 184–186, 248, 250–251 George, Henry, 46 End Poverty in California, 170–175, Germany 177, 178 World War I, 96–99, 108 End Poverty in Civilization, 190 World War II, 202–203, 206–208 EPIC News, 194 Ghent, W. J., 99 Espionage Act, 102–103, 107 Gillette, King, 118 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 288

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 71–72, 82 Howells, William Dean, 23, 49, 53 Gnomobile, The (Sinclair), 193–194, 243 Huerta, Victoriano, 88 Goldman, Emma, 140 Hull House, 61 Goldwater, Barry, 245–246 Hypnotist, The (Sinclair), 154 Gompers, Samuel, 86 Goose-Step, The (Sinclair), 128–130, 137, Ickes, Harold, 196 145 industrialization, 15, 17 Goslings, The (Sinclair), 130–131, 137 Industrial Republic, The (Sinclair), 68–69, Graham, Billy, 230–231 110 Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 191 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Great Depression, 149, 156–157, 87, 111, 131 169–170, 190–191, 218 Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), 50, Greatest Story Ever Told, The (Oursler), 51, 139, 230 230 “Irresponsibles, The” (MacLeish), 207 Great Railroad Strike of 1877, 15–16 Italy, 108, 221. See also fascism; World Great Society, 240 War II Greenwich Village, 105, 135 Ivens, Joris, 203 gubernatorial race (California 1934). See California James, Henry, 23 James, William, 38 Haight, Raymond, 175, 183, 196 Japan, 217–221 Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel, 110, 135, Jefferson, Thomas, 172 137, 151 Jerome, William Travers, 49 Haldeman-Julius Weekly, 110 Jimmie Higgins (Sinclair), 112 Hampton, Ben, 153 Johnson, Lyndon B., 240 Harding, Warren, 117, 133, 141 Johnson, Tom, 33–34 Harrington, Michael, 244 Jones, Howard Mumford, 224 Harris, Frank, 27, 104, 106, 112–113 Journal of Arthur Stirling, The (Sinclair), Hartmann, Sadakichi, 73 43–44 Haymarket Affair of 1886, 61, 90 Jung, Carl, 234–235 Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells), 23 Jungalow, 81 Hearst, William Randolph, 69 Jungle, The (Sinclair), 20, 233 Helicon Hall, 69–73 film, 152, 163 Hell (Sinclair), 133–134 legacy of, 249–250 Hemingway, Ernest, 122, 203, 205 play, 68, 75 Herron, George, 45, 47, 212, 215 sales of, 3 Hiss, Alger, 229 themes of, 60–67 Hitler, Adolf, 202–203, 206. See also World War II Kahn, Otto, 160 Hollywood, Sinclair and, 181–183 Kellogg, J. H., 77, 78 Hollywood Reporter, 182 Kellogg Sanitarium, 77 Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), 203 Kemp, Harry, 45, 77, 82=83, 135 Homestead Strike of 1892, 87 Kennedy, David, 102, 106 Hoover, Herbert, 117, 149, 157 Kennedy, John F., 230, 240 Hoover, J. Edgar, 239–240 Kimbrough, Hunter, 160, 161 Hopkins, Harry, 176, 182, 196 Kimbrough, Mary Craig. See Sinclair, House Un-American Activities Commit- Mary Craig Kimbrough (second tee, 232. See also McCarthy, Joe wife) Howe, Frederic, 33–34, 118 Kimbrough family, 95–96 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 289

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King Coal (Sinclair), 90, 250 MacDowell, Mary, 61–62 King Midas (Sinclair), 41, 45 Macfadden, Bernarr, 78–79, 84 Koestler, Arthur, 6–7 MacLeish, Archibald, 203, 207, 214 Korean War, 227–228, 234 Malraux, André, 6–7, 203, 205 Kropotkin, Peter, 86, 113 Mammonart (Sinclair), 134–135 Krutch, Joseph Wood, 122 Manassas (Sinclair), 48–49, 102 Mann, Horace, 130 labor. See socialism; unions Man’s Hope (Malraux), 203 LaFollette, Phil, 196, 214 Marcosson, Isaac, 67–68 LaFollette, Robert, 141 Martin Eden (London), 51 Laidler, Harry, 50 Masses, 104–106, 138 Lange, Dorothea, 190 Mayer, Louis B., 157, 163, 181 “Lanny Budd” book series (Sinclair), 5–6, Mayo, Margaret, 75 211, 213, 239, 250 McCarthy, Joe, 230, 232 criticism of, 224–225 McGerr, Michael, 24, 120 success of, 217–218 McKinley, William, 37, 57 television series planned for, 225, 243 McPherson, Aimee Semple, 123–124, titles of, 211–212, 215–225, 228–229, 179 231 Meat Inspection Act of 1906, 67 Lasch, Christopher, 46–47 meatpacking industry, 62–67. See also Lasky, Melvin, 228 Jungle, The (Sinclair) League for Independent Political Action, Mencken, H. L., 21–22, 117, 123–124, 170 125–127, 154 League for Industrial Democracy, 230, on Christian Science, 150–151 244 Money Writes and, 135, 136 League of Nations, 109 The Wet Parade and, 155 Lenin, V. I., 45, 86, 140 Merriam, Frank, 175–176, 181, 182–183 Lesser, Sol, 161, 162, 225 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 156 Letters to Judd (Sinclair), 141 Metropolis, The (Sinclair), 74, 75 Leuchtenberg, William, 100 Mexico, 97 Lewis, Sinclair, 73 Miller, Perry, 224 Lilly Library, 242, 243 Mitchell, Greg, 178 Lippiat, George, 87 Modern Monthly, 162 Lippmann, Walter, 13–14, 122, 139 Moneychangers, The (Sinclair), 74–75, 153, Little Review, 137–138 163 Little Steel (Sinclair), 200, 211 Money Writes! (Sinclair), 135–136, 139, London, Charmian, 52, 99 140 London, Jack, 49–55, 76, 82, 99, 150, Moore, Fred, 143–144, 145 201–202 Morgan, J. Pierpont, 15, 24, 60, 153, 213 Long, Huey, 170–171, 198, 202 Morgenthau, Henry, 196 Looking Backward (Bellamy), 46 Morris, Lawrence, 139 Los Angeles Times, 176, 179–183, 243 Mountain City (Sinclair), 151 Love’s Pilgrimage (Sinclair), 82–84 “muckrakers,” 60, 118 Lowell, A. Lawrence, 145 Munger, Adele, 80 Luce, Henry, 4 Mussolini, Benito, 202–203, 221 Ludlow Massacre, 87–88, 90 Nader, Ralph, 241, 247 MacArthur, Douglas, 228 Nation, 107, 155 MacDowell, Edward, 33 National Civil Liberties Bureau, 132 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 290

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National Education Association, 131 Other America, The (Harrington), 244 National Industrial Recovery Act, 186, Otto, Dick, 178, 184 195 Our Lady (Sinclair), 192–193, 211 National Progressive Party, 86, 196–197, Oursler, Fulton, 230 214, 230 Overman, The (Sinclair), 44, 68 National War Labor Board, 100, 110 Nazis, 202–203, 226–227. See also World Packard, Vance, 244 War II “Palmer raids,” 111 Neutrality Act, 205, 215 Parker, Dorothy, 121, 146 New Appeal, 110 Paterson Pageant of 1913, 88 New Deal, 173, 174, 186, 191, 198 Peale, Norman Vincent, 231 New Left, 244–246 Pearson’s, 104, 106, 113 “New Mother,” 80 People of the Abyss, The (London), 54 New Republic, 139, 146 Personal Jesus, A (Sinclair), 231, 234 New School for Social Research, 129–130 Phillipines, 38 Newspaper Guild, 128, 244, 248 Physical Culture, 78, 84, 85 New York Times, 66, 127 Pickford, Mary, 154 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 42, 52, 123 Popular Front, 192, 207 1920s Populism, 45 civil liberties activism during, 131–134 Presidential Agent (Sinclair), 220–221 criticism of Sinclair during, 137–140 Prince Hagen (Sinclair), 42 culture of, 120–124, 134–137 Princeton, New Jersey, 47–48 “Dead Hand” series (Sinclair), Princeton University, 48 125–131, 136, 137, 145 “production for use,” 171, 195 oil industry during, 140–142 Profits of Religion, The (Sinclair), 125–127 Sacco and Vanzetti, 8, 142–146, 149, Prohibition, 154–155 246 Sinclair’s disillusionment during, Quebec, 39–40 117–120 Nixon, Richard, 245 railroads, 15–16, 152 No Pasaran (Sinclair), 203–208, 211 Rankine, Annette, 104 Norris, Frank, 53 Rauschenbusch, Walter, 127 North American Committee to Aid Reagan, Ronald, 246 Spanish Democracy, 204 realism, 52–54 Noyes, Anna, 75 Reconstruction, 14 nuclear weapons, 232 Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 38 nutritional science profession, 67 Red Scare, 110–114, 140 Nye, Gerald, 213–214 Reed, John, 88, 104, 113 religion Oaks, Louis, 132 California gubernatorial campaign and, Octopus, The (Norris), 53 177 Oil! (Sinclair), 140–142, 250 cold war and, 230–231 Olson, Culbert, 184, 197 in 1920s, 122 Olson, Floyd, 170, 190 of Sinclair, 20, 26–27, 46 One Clear Call (Sinclair), 223–224 Sinclair’s works on, 125–127, 133–134, 100% (Sinclair), 112–113, 153 192–194 Open Forum (ACLU), 132 Return of Lanny Budd, The (Sinclair), Orwell, George, 6–7, 203, 205, 224 228–229, 231 Ostoja, Roman, 150 Reuther, Walter, 200 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 291

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Rialto Theater, 161–162 reconciliation with father, 245 Robinson, James Harvey, 33, 129–130 as socialist, 156, 169 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 87, 88, 89, 127 on World War II, 206 Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 15, 60 Sinclair, Mary Craig Kimbrough (second Rocky Mountain News, 143 wife), 77, 84–85 Roman Interlude (Sinclair), 151–152 as activist, 88–89 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 220 on communism, 227 death of, 222 death of, 241–242 EPIC and, 195–196 family of, 95–96, 160, 161 foreign policy of, 214–215, 217–221 financial management by, 136, 141, 156, New Deal, 173, 174, 186, 191, 198 159, 161–162 Sinclair’s gubernatorial run and, health of, 96 169–170, 176, 183, 186 on husband’s gubernatorial candidacy, Yalta Conference (World War II), 169, 182, 184, 185 221–222 telepathy practiced by, 149–150, 151 Roosevelt, Theodore, 20, 37, 59–60, Upton Sinclair’s Magazine and, 103 66–67, 69, 86, 89, 107 views on Wilson, 109 Russell, Charles Edward, 99, 103 Sinclair, Mary Elizabeth Willis (third Russia, 110–114, 118, 140, 159, 206, 228. wife), 242, 249 See also Soviet Union; World War I; Sinclair, Meta Fuller (first wife), 40, 41, World War II 47–48, 63, 69, 77 Rutzebeck, Hjalmar, 193 custody sought by, 95–96 divorce of, 81–85 Sacco, Nicola, 8, 142–146, 149, 246 Sinclair, Upton, 1, 3–10, 13–16, 57, 115, Samuel the Seeker (Sinclair), 76 147, 209, 237 San Pedro (California) strike, 131–132, arrests of, 81, 88 181 assassination plots against, 101, 184 Script, 153 “A Battle with Misfortune” (serialized séances, 150, 151 story), 35, 39 Sedition Act of 1918, 102, 107 books by Selwyn, Edgar, 156 Affectionately Eve, 239 Seven Arts, 104 Another Pamela, 235 sex education, 80, 85 Between Two Worlds, 215–216, 218 Shakespeare, William, 134 The Book of Life, 138 Shaw, George Bernard, 86 “Books for Young People” (book Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 39 series), 36 Shutt, Abner, 199 Boston, 8, 144–146, 149, 250 Shutt, Tom, 199 The Brass Check, 127–128, 136, 137 Simons, Algie, 62 The Captain of Industry, 44, 68 Simpson, Wallis, 194 Co-op, 193 Sinclair, Betty (daughter-in-law), 151, The Cry for Justice, 95 156, 157, 158, 162 Dragon Harvest, 221 Sinclair, David (son), 40, 41, 47–48, 63, Dragon’s Teeth, 216–218 85 The Fasting Cure, 79 childhood custody of, 95–96 The Flivver King, 187, 199–201, 211 collective child rearing for, 69, 71–72, The Gnomobile, 193–194, 243 80 The Goose-Step, 128–130, 137, 145 diet of, 77 The Goslings, 130–131, 137 estrangement from father, 213 The Industrial Republic, 68–69, 110 bindex.qxd 2/27/06 1:38 PM Page 292

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unions (continued) Walsh, Frank, 90 Railroad Brotherhood, 152 Warbasse, J. P., 136–137 Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, War Production Board, 218 200–201 Wayland, J. A., 45 teachers and, 131 welfare programs, 174–175 United Auto Workers, 199, 244, 248 Wells, H. G., 68 United Mine Workers, 170 Western Federation of Miners, 87–88 Western Federation of Miners, 87–88 Wet Parade, The (Sinclair), 155–157 See also individual union names What Didymus Did (Sinclair), 235 United Auto Workers (UAW), 199, 244, What God Means to Me: An Attempt at a 248 Working Religion (Sinclair), 192 United For California, 181 White, Bouck, 127 United Mine Workers (UMW), 170 White City, 61 Upton Sinclair: A Study in Social Protest Whitman, Walt, 3–4 (Dell), 138–139 Whitney, Charlotte Anita, 133 Upton Sinclair: Biographical and Critical Wide Is the Gate (Sinclair), 219–220 Opinions (Sinclair), 138 Wiley, Harvey Washington, 67 Upton Sinclair’s Magazine, 93, 103–110 Willis, Mary Elizabeth, 242, 249 U.S. Naval Academy, 34 Wilshire, Gaylord, 45, 75 U.S. Steel, 200–201 Wilshire’s Magazine, 45 USA (Dos Passos), 191 Wilson, Christopher, 35 Utopian Society, 173 Wilson, Woodrow, 88–91, 97–102, 105–110, 131–132 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr., 220 Winrod, Gerald, 202 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Sr., 15 World’s End (Sinclair), 211–212 Van Doren, Irita, 201 World to Win, A (Sinclair), 222–223 Van Eeden, Frederik Willem, 84 World War I, 96–101, 104–110, 114 Vanguard Press, 137 World War II Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 6, 142–146, 149, fascism and, 202–208 246 Lanny Budd series and, 5–6, 211–213, Veblen, Thorstein, 46, 49–50, 54, 74, 129, 215–225, 228–229, 231, 243, 250 158, 173–174 United States in, 217–221 Vietnam War, 240–241, 244, 246 “writing cabin,” 29 Voorhis, Jerry, 246 Yellow Wallpaper, The (Gilman), 82 Wagner Act, 186 Young, Art, 105–106 Wallace, Henry, 176, 230 Youth International Party (Yippies), Wallace, Mike, 249 246–247 Walling, William English, 50, 99 Wally for Queen! (Sinclair), 194 Zinn, Howard, 10