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Oil! (There Will Be Blood) Book

Provides a picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. This novel features senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist.Read More

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    Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what "The Jungle" did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In "Oil!" Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials class warfare and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators small investors oil magnates a Hollywood film star and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

  • Blackwell

    Oil has been struck in Southern California. Soon the landscape is carved up as the drilling begins. One man stands to profit from it - Mr. J. Arnold Ross, a kindly tycoon who gets rich by buying up land cheap and bribing public officials to get...

  • 0141031700
  • 9780141031705
  • Upton Sinclair
  • 7 February 2008
  • Penguin Modern Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
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