Published in 1962 and never before available in audio!

Upton Sinclair was first and foremost the most eminent and impactful muckraking journalist of the early 20th century (The Jungle - 1906: precipitated meaningful and permanent improvements in the safety and purity of the food we eat).

He wrote books exposing the unsavory workings of many other industries and institutions: Oil! (the petroleum industry), The Profits of Religion (religious institutions), The Brass Check (newspapers and magazines), and many more.

He also was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Dragon's Teeth - 1942). Sinclair wrote nonfiction, novels, short stories, satire, plays, movie screenplays, and magazine articles. For a time he was a publisher of a monthly magazine. And, he ran for Governor of California in 1934.

His autobiography is as much personal as political. He speaks of meetings in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt; lunches and dinners and afternoons spent with Albert Einstein; long conversations and camaraderie with King Gillette (the 'Razor King'), William Fox (movie mogul of Fox Studios), Henry Ford (The Flivver King) Sergei Eisenstein (the great film director), Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Bernard Shaw, Walter Lippman, Bertrand Russell, Eugene O'Neil, Charlie Chaplin, H. L. Mencken, and many more.

He lived long enough to meet with Lyndon Johnson at the White House (Ralph Nader was there, too). He spent time with many of the great thinkers of the first half of the 20th Century. He tells all these stories giving first-person accounts of who they were and what they meant to him.

Still, he was naive about the pernicious Anti-Semitism of popular public figures such as Father Coughlin and Henry Ford. He exhibits racist and paternalistic attitudes towards non-white Americans while campaigning for "freedom and prosperity for all." He was a believer in and wrote about ESP, Psychokinesis, and other "fringe" ideas since proven to be without merit. Though mostly Libertarian in his beliefs, he supported Prohibition. He supported the US Entry into both World Wars despite fervent opposition from fellow Socialists. A life-long Democratic Socialist he strongly opposed the Communists, with whom he frequently battled.

Sinclair wrote this autobiography in 1961 at age 81, having already published over 100 books in all.

Narrator Peter Lerman has previously recorded four other books by Upton Sinclair. He has narrated over 100 audiobooks to date and is a recipient of a Golden Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine.

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