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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 along the way an in depth picture of the introduction of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production will be the context for Sinclair's story of an genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield staff 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.
