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Tag: Upton Sinclair

October 22, 2009 Media

I meet the grandson of Upton Sinclair’s private secretary—and reflect on today’s super-rich: Just like Sinclair’s 1908 book?

I’d written the October 19th post—on The Money Changers, the 1908 Upton Sinclair classic—just before I mentioned it to Ted

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October 19, 2009 Media / Politicians

Free Upton Sinclair classic tells how Wall Street manipulators can cheat the rest of us

Sy Solomon’s specialty is ripping off the taxpayers—through shoddy construction practices in an IRS-occupied building and other projects. If, however,

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February 14, 2009 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Will politicians grow more crooked if newspapers dwindle in number and influence?

How good are newspapers as corruption-fighters or -preventers? As noted in The Brass Check, a Chicago Tribune reporter actually tried

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