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Boston: A Documentary Novel Kindle Edition

by Upton Sinclair (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case

With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder. Boston, a “documentary novel” published one year after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, brilliantly combines fact and fiction to expose the toxic atmosphere of paranoia, prejudice, and greed in which the two men were tried.
 
Recently widowed sixty-year-old Cornelia Thornwell abandons her Boston Brahmin family to take a factory job in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She witnesses the crushing poverty and heartless bigotry endured by immigrant laborers, and befriends the charismatic fishmonger Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a committed anarchist and atheist. When Vanzetti and his fellow countryman Nicola Sacco are arrested and charged with murder, Cornelia’s belief in the fairness of the American judicial system is shattered. Joining the public outcry heard from Boston to Buenos Aires, she demands a fair trial—but it is too late. As Sacco knew all too well: “They got us, they will kill us.”
 
This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair.
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  4. Publication date
    December 15, 2015
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“A literary achievement . . . full of sharp observation and savage characterization.” —The New York Times
 
“A history of the Sacco-Vanzetti case truer than the court transcript, more real than any non-fiction account, precisely because it goes beyond the immediate events of the case to bring the reader the historical furnace in which the case was forged.” —Howard Zinn
 
Praise for Upton Sinclair
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Upton Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw

About the Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017APD5TA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (December 15, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.0 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 590 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0CRRYGWT7
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Upton Sinclair

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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  • Kelley C. Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2018
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    I read this book in college and wanted to read it again. I haven't yet, but I remember it being a great book and I learned a piece of history I had not known before. Upton Sinclair is a great investigative writer as is evidenced by this book and The Jungle. I am looking forward to reading this again.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Photographs missing in kindle version
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2023
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    This is not a rating of the contents of the book, but rather a “buyer beware”. The kindle ebook does not contain the photographs that were included in the 1978 paper edition of the book. Also the introduction included in that edition is not in kindle. So, if you are expecting a replica of the printed book this is not exactly it.
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  • Villager
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Presentation of the Sacco Venzeti Trail
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019
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    I found this book to be captivating. Great story line that pulls you into the like style of the wealthy of 1920's Boston and also the poor factory worker. I never understood the significance of the S/V trial and execution till reading this book.
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  • Manfred Finkhaeuser
    3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017
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    By far too long. The reader loses the interest in the story-
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  • LolasMom
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018
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    My husband could barely put the book down. Just finished it this week. I can't wait to read it.
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  • Ceal S.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2021
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    I had high hopes, but the book needs a good (better) editor and the research seemed flimsy.
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  • Walter O. Hecht
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sacco and Vanzetti
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2016
    Boston by Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle and numerous other novels of social protest. The trial of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti was mentioned briefly in my high school American history class, but without detail. I decided to read Sinclair's two-volume history novel to learn more. I found that at that time white New England was unwilling to give Italian immigrants a fair trial. Today, 95 years later to the day they were convicted by an all-white male jury, it is believed that Sacco may have been guilty while Vanzetti was clearly innocent. The judge in the case, Webster Thayer, was prejudiced against the defendants and did not conduct a fair and impartial trial. He believed that Sacco and Vanzetti should be punished with execution because they advocated socialism, rather than punishing them for the crime of murder with which they were charged.
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  • lisa righetti
    5.0 out of 5 stars Assolutamente da leggere
    Reviewed in Italy on September 5, 2020
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    È una ricostruzione accurata del caso Sacco- Vanzetti.
    Ho molto apprezzato la ricostruzione dello spirito del tempo, che aiuta a capire il tragico destino a cui i due anarchici erano destinati. Mi è anche piaciuto l'inserimento di personaggi fittizi (su tutti, Cornelia Thornwell, una protagonista di questo romanzo ed amica sincera di Bartolomeo Vanzetti) in questo romanzo documentario.
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