Doth thou agree with what Jack London said about Upton Sinclair and The Jungle?

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Dear Comrades: . . . The book we have been waiting for these many years! It will open countless ears that have been deaf to Socialism. It will make thousands of converts to our cause. It depicts what our country really is, the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering, a human hell, a jungle of wild beasts.

And take notice and remember, comrades, this book is straight proletarian. It is written by an intellectual proletarian, for the proletarian. It is to be published by a proletarian publishing house. It is to be read by the proletariat. What Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the black slaves The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today.

The quote comes from Mark Sullivan in 'Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925'
 
No, not really. I do not believe that our country is "the home of oppression and injustice, a nightmare of misery, an inferno of suffering, a human hell, a jungle of wild beasts." But since the book was written in 1906, I guess the question would be if our country was like that back then. And more precisely, was it like that to the new immigrants of the country. I'm sure that it was to some, but then again, we were not forcing people to come to this country, were we?

I just a few weeks ago received the first three volumes of Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925. I think it will be really interesting to read about back then from a back then perspective. I read a short article that Mark Sullivan wrote in a 1939 Readers Digest that led me to buy the books.
 
No Because that's not what actually happened as a result of the Jungle being published
What happened was that people read the Jungle and asked if Sinclair's allegations about how their food was being processed were true.
Government investigated and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 ( the first of it's kind for the entire US ) was the result
That Act led directly to the creation of the FDA.
 
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