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Jimmie Higgins
Upton Sinclair
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Every evening now the party held its "soap-box" meetings on a corner just off Main Street. Jimmie, having volunteered as one of the assistants, would bolt his supper in the evening and hurry off to the spot. He was not one of the speakers, of course—he would have been terrified at the idea of making a speech; but he was one of those whose labours made the speaking possible, and who . . . Read More
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This is an interesting but lesser novel (he had a lot of lessers!) in the Sinclair oeuvre. The book focuses on Jimmie Higgins, a machinist and loyal member of his local Socialist party. The book follows the tribulations of Higgins over a wide range of disasters (and a few triumphs) and Sinclair work
I loved this book. Jimmie Higgins starts out as a meek quiet socialist hanger-on who sets up the chairs for meetings, sweeps up after, and doesn't say much. By the end of the book Jimmie has developed and grown into a conscious and defiant fighter for his class. Jimmie is a true working class hero.
Upton Sinclair schafft es mal wieder meisterlich, das Leben der Menschen in Amerika um die Zeit des ersten Weltkrieges anschaulich darzustellen anhand des Lebens von Jimmie Higgins.
Upton Sinclair war ja ein großer Verfechter des Sozialismus, dies wird in diesem Buch wieder stark thematisiert. Dies
"You could not be indifferent to the war, you could not be of two minds about it. And yet--Jimmie Higgins was of two minds! He wanted to beat back the Huns, who had made all this fearful mess; but also he wanted to beat the profiteers who were making messes at home."
I think a lot of Americans don't