The complete online text of The Pot Boiler by Upton Sinclair.

Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968), American novelist and political writer, was one of the most influential muckraking writers of the 1900s. He continued to write and speak for reform for many years. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature—his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others—were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the grea...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature--his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others--were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the great majority...

PETER MAYER, chairman and chief executive of the worldwide Penguin publishing group, is no stranger to confrontation. In his 20s he worked part-time as a New York cab driver. So a small demo by his bookish employees is unlikely to faze him. Even...

Dateline: early 1960s. Location: telephone company office on Manhattan Island. Time: noon hour. Without any advance warning, a 40-foot-long boiler tears loose from its bolt in the cement, blasts through a reinforced concrete wall and travels 400 feet though the office, plowing through six...