Upton Sinclair

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

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Rutten: Amazon's shameful California tax dodge

2011-07-20 00:00:00

At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Californians came to regard one powerful enterprise as the symbol of oppressive avarice and of big money's corrupt appropriation of the political process. That...

PST, A to Z: ‘Eames’ at A+D Museum, ‘Sympathetic’ at MAK Center

2011-10-11 16:32:50

Former Upton Sinclair home in Monrovia is for sale

2011-02-23 17:02:00

The house that social reformer and novelist Upton Sinclair lived in during the 1940s through the '60s has come on the market in Monrovia at $1.5 million. Built in 1923, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style residence is listed on the National Register of...

Christina Aguilera is selling her Beverly Hills mansion

2011-03-26 00:00:00

Christina Aguilera has put her 11,500-square-foot gated mansion in Beverly Hills on the market at $13.5 million. Set on nearly two-thirds of an acre, the Mediterranean-style home has a grand foyer with a sweeping staircase, a fanciful children's room,...

Partisan rhetoric inflames college board race

2011-05-14 00:00:00

A political campaign focused on a troubled community college construction program has suddenly veered into a noisy side battle with cries of censorship, stealth candidates and "tea party" takeover. Scott Svonkin, a senior advisor to L.A. County Sheriff...

Upton Sinclair House for Sale

2011-03-02 04:33:12

Justin Halpern, the Twitter celeb behind "$#*! My Dad Says," urges kids to read

2011-03-04 16:35:45

From the Stacks – 'Dancing Bear' (1968)

2011-04-20 04:33:37

New wave of tainted food in China and how inflation could make it worse

2011-04-28 04:34:58

Tim Rutten: Paul Ryan's budget blueprint would push the aged into poverty

2011-04-09 00:00:00

The hall of mirrors in which our bitterly partisan politics now play themselves out is a curious place. But even by its distorted standards, the reaction to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan's budget blueprint has been odd, particularly the...

Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings

2010-12-10 14:30:00

"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was a novelistic expose of the dark side of the working-class life.

2012-02-16 13:40:39

The house that novelist Upton Sinclair once lived in has come on the market in Monrovia at $1.5 million.

2011-02-23 17:21:19

The house that novelist Upton Sinclair once lived in has come on the market in Monrovia at $1.5 million.

2011-02-23 17:21:19