Upton Sinclair
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As Presidential Agent 103, Lanny Budd witnesses the collapse of the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg Trials in this novel in the Pulitzer Prize-winning saga. As a spy for President Franklin Roosevelt, Lanny Budd was able to infiltrate the inner circle of the Nazi high command and glean essential information on behalf of the Allied cause. Now, as the terrible global conflict approaches its long-awaited conclusion, the newly commissioned...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With America at war, Lanny Budd risks life and limb from North Africa to Moscow on behalf of the Allied cause Members of the German high command believe that American art expert Lanny Budd is sympathetic to their cause, but since 1938 he has been an undercover agent working for President Franklin Roosevelt. Now, in 1941, the United States has been pulled into the fray by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Lanny's services are required more than...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
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A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the text of a debate between T. A. McNeal, a Kansas newspaper editor and author of When Kansas Was Young (1922), and Upton Sinclair, the famous novelist and crusading reformer. Sinclair was pro-Socialist, as he ran twice in California on the party's ticket. T. A., on the other hand, was more conservative-a debate well worth reading!
Author
Language
English
Description
David Schwimmer and Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company created this innovative and heart-wrenching adaptation of Upton Sinclair's powerhouse novel, in a co-production with L.A. Theatre Works.
A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.
Recorded at the Guest Quarters...