Book Review: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Source: www.sparknotes.com  The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event, especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book, is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism, which is, in Sinclair’s view, inhuman, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent. The slow annihilation of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of

The Transparent Self

Paraphrasing Sidney Jourard in The Transparent Self: The challenge is given to me, instant by instant, until I die, to change the world…..the sound, stink, feel of the world…..the world and you are clay…shape them and reshape them……until you find the limits beyond which they can no longer be reshaped…..

Bloodstained Sea by Michael Walling

The following info is from Amazon: Book Description The definitive work on what the Coast Guard achieved when called to serve. An absolute ‘must read.’ “-; Military magazine Americans called it Torpedo Junction; to the Germans, it was Devil’s Gorge. By any name, the North Atlantic of the early 1940s was one of the most