The Flivver King

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications. Very Good-. 1937. Early Reprint. Paperback. This is a trade sized paperback with light cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The covers have some light edge wear and nicking and generalized toning, especially to the spine ends and edges. The text pages are clean but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. This is an early reprint of a book self-published by Upton Sinclair. "What is Henry Ford? What have the years done to him? What has his billion dollars made of him?" "Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. Novels like King Coal (1917) , The Coal War (published posthumously) , Oil! (1927) and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil and auto industries at the time. He attacked J. P. Morgan, whom many regarded as a hero for ending the Panic of 1907, saying that he had engineered the crisis in order to acquire a bank. [citation needed] The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his "wage reform", and the company's Sociological Department to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller Jr. And his role in the 1913 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado." .