Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Jungle King Coal: A Novel The Moneychangers The Metropolis Jimmie Higgins 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Brass Check Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.