From the link: "History remembers Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as a vivid exposé on literal and figurative sausage making, a piece that shocked the nation and le

From the link: "History remembers Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as a vivid exposé on literal and figurative sausage making, a piece that shocked the nation and led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. But all that happens in the first half of the novel, no one remembers the second half. And that is probably for the best. Rereading The Jungle recently, I again found the second half almost unbearable, especially the later chapters which devolve into clumsy, thinly-veiled socialist propaganda." This appears to be precisely the reaction to The Jungle which Upton Sinclair complained about; he wrote the book to illustrate the harshness and exploitation of poverty, but everyone got hung up on the descriptions of meatpacking instead. Not on the conditions of the meatpackers, mind you, but on the conditions of the meat ("Oh no, not my food!")! As Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."