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Upton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize for his notorious 1906 novel The Jungle, a fictionalized account of the barbaric conditions of the men and women who worked in Chicago's meatpacking industry. And just as the horrific circumstances he exposed in that book more than a century ago appear to be recurring in our fast-food nation, so do those he highlights in his 1908 novel, the cautionary tale The Moneychangers. First published in 1908, this is the story of a small band of Wall Street players who plot to outmaneuver their rivals via financial schemes that sound all too familiar in today's chaotic economic environment: shell companies and creative accounting lure unwitting investors to prop up secretly bankrupt corporations, prompting a stock market crash, a bank run, and a dramatic rise in unemployment. As with The Jungle, this is based on real events-the Wall Street crash of 1907-and reads as startlingly prescient today, as the very crimes Sinclair strove to highlight plague society once again.

Book details

• Full title: The Moneychangers
• Author: Upton Sinclair
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 206
• EAN: 9781616402686
• ISBN: 1616402687
• ID: 12401946
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: July 2010

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