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The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two: Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest Kindle Edition

by Upton Sinclair (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Books four through six in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels about an international spy in the first half of the twentieth century. 
 
An ambitious and entertaining mix of history, adventure, and romance, Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller. “Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human” (Time). In these three novels, as the threat of Nazism grows in the 1930s, Lanny progresses from international art dealer to international spy.
 
Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business agreement with Hermann Göring, Lanny uses the opportunity and his art world reputation to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information he can transmit back to those who are dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He’s playing a dangerous—albeit necessary—game, which will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.
 
The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny’s boss from the Paris Peace Conference—now one of Roosevelt’s top advisors—connects him to the president. Appointed Presidential Agent 103, he embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny’s motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her.
 
Dragon Harvest: Lanny has earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, who are convinced the American art dealer is a “true believer” committed to their Fascist cause. But when Roosevelt’s secret agent learns of the Führer’s plans for conquest, his dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European leaders fall on deaf ears. The bitter seeds sown decades earlier with the Treaty of Versailles are now bearing fruit, and there will be no stopping the Nazi war machine as it rolls relentlessly on toward Paris.
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“These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history. . . . Sinclair’s historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions—government, press, corporations, oil cartels and lobbyists—remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient.” —The New York Times
 
“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
 
“A great and well-balanced design . . . I think it the completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done.” —H. G. Wells

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 Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CMF3WYJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (April 17, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 17, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 12.6 MB
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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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  • Chuck H.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023
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    Excellent books. I would like to keep reading more of the works by Upton Sinclair. Brilliant mind! You won't be disappointed.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Want to know how wars begin?
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020
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    I honestly believe there would be fewer wars in the world if this series of books (The Lanny Budd Series) were required reading for discussion groups in high school and college. Just a really exciting and interesting way to learn about a truly important subject.
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  • Christine M. Lopez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great series
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022
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    Great series and terrific insight. The present certainly resembles the past
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  • KL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Modern tale of Democrat Socialism
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2020
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    Warns of the rise of BLM marxists. Warns against voting for pinks like Biden.
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  • Robert J Peressini
    5.0 out of 5 stars Looking forward to volume 3
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2020
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    Great storytelling - lot's of historical insight. Very relevant to current events.
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  • JMB
    5.0 out of 5 stars This series has engaged me; it is for today's times as well as a century ago.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2020
    I have been happily immersed in the Lanny Budd series for several weeks now. He is like an intelligent Forrest Gump, who not-so-accidentally finds himself interacting with main historical figures . It's the story of Europe from World War 1 to World War II - and everything in between, which is really telling. Its commentary on class struggles, the 'right' to wealth and privilege are as timely today as back then. And the portrayal of good and bad leadership is out of today's headlines. Saying impossible truths loudly and often does not make them true. And yet Hitler got a whole generation of Germans not only to accept them but to stop questioning them...
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  • JW. Healy
    3.0 out of 5 stars Does he leap tall buildings at a single bound too?
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2019
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    The story begins with the rise on Nazi Germany and ends at the outset of WWII. It seems Lanny Budd can do almost anything. He knows everybody - Hitler, Goering and other top members of the Nazi regime, The French Premier and other high level French men, key English government officials, Roosevelt, and has their confidence. No one is suspicious. He becomes a spy for FDR. When he gets into trouble he calls on these contacts to get out. It is a bit too fantastic for my taste and a bit too long as well.
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  • Mich the Dish NYC
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to understand the 20th Century and how we got to the 21st, read all 11 volumes!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2020
    So glad the series was reissued. If you like "The Crown" and historical fiction, you'll love Lanny Budd. He's a cross between Zelig and Forrest Gump, with a little humanistic socialism thrown in - just to remind us how the powerful political movements of the 20th century were came about, and the role of the arms dealer in all of it.
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