Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America

Fiction. Facimilie reprint, available again from SPD. Fiftieth anniversary edition. Upton Sinclair's THE FLIVVER KING stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. Workers and bosses, flappers and Klansmen, war and depression, Prohibition outlaws and high-society parties, unions and anti-union gun thugs -- few aspects of American life in the first four decades of our century are missing from this small masterpiece. THE FLIVVER KING sustains the same sure grasp of working-class life which characterized Sinclair's earlier classic, THE JUNGLE, but with much less sentimentality and with a steadier focus on how alienated work breeds not only degradation but also resistance and revolt.