The Secret Life of Jesus de Upton Sinclair

The Secret Life of Jesus

Upton Sinclair

This book openws your eyes to Jesus walking again from the lilies of Galilee to the thorn of Golgotha. Dr. Reinhold Niebur, famed theologian, has said of this novel: "While unorthodox, it is thoroughly reverent. Some orthodox Christians might not agree with the viewpoint of Upton Sinclair who seeks to appreciate the historical, the human Jesus,but even the most devout could not take offense." Dr. Carl Jung, wrote to Upton Sinclair, "You have certainly succeeded in presenting an acceptable picture.....should you venture to say that it is even a likely portrait of such a presumably unique charachter of high literary quality. Again, Sinclair mixes religion and politics in a unique American way. A Collector's Edition.

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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.