Mental Radio de Upton Sinclair

Mental Radio

Upton Sinclair

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2007

This fascinating book documents Upton Sinclair's famous test that he devised in an attempt to authenticate his second wife's supposed psychic abilities, who, at the time, was suffering from depression and had a keen interest in the occult. The test consisted of her attempts to accurately duplicate two hundred and ninety different pictures that her brother drew in a separate room. According to Sinclair, she was able to accurately duplicate sixty-five of them; one hundred and fifty-five he considered 'partial successes, and seventy were failures. This text comprises the results of these tests, complete with original drawings, the attempts at duplication, and a wealth of notes and comments. The original German edition of this book was prefaced by Albert Einstein, who was a friend of Sinclair, and admired the book. We are republishing this antiquarian text now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

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	Preț	Express
Paperback (2)	98^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.
CREATESPACE – 30 iun 2008	98^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.
Holmes Press – 14 mar 2007	219^.37 lei 6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1)	281^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.
Synergy International of the Americas – 14 iul 2007	281^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.

Preț

Express

Paperback (2)

98^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

CREATESPACE – 30 iun 2008

98^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

Holmes Press – 14 mar 2007

219^.37 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

281^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.

Synergy International of the Americas – 14 iul 2007

281^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several 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 also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.