Herron eventually fell away from Socialism, disgusted with the reactions of his friends to the outbreak of World War I. Although Manassas, like many of Sinclair’s other books, was a commercial flop, it paved the way for Sinclair to write The Jungle, which homed in on the theme of Socialism. Its hero, Allan Montague, meets John Brown, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and other Civil War-era figures and is indoctrinated into the neo-abolitionist socialism by a German refugee soldier” (ANB). Herron subsidized Sinclair while he wrote Manassas: A Novel of the War (1904), a well-researched novel combining history and politics. Although he shifted from one cause to another during his varied career, Herron remained an articulate idealist, judging the present in the light of his high hopes, always seeking a new leader or movement to save civilization… Millionaire-socialist George D.
Herron “an early important figure in the rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism… His activities in the early twentieth century cast light on the history of socialism in the United States and Europe, and his role as a significant interpreter of Woodrow Wilson to Europe during World War I provides insight into diplomacy of the period. This presentation copy is inscribed to George D. Sinclair’s famous exposé of Chicago meatpacking practices led to the immediate passage of food-inspection laws, but failed to generate the groundswell of sympathy for the International Socialist cause for the author had hoped would follow. Feb 17th ’06.” The copy belonging to esteemed Sinclair collectors Willard Morse and Elmer Belt with their bookplates. Herron with sincerest gratitude & affection from The Author. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth.įirst edition of Sinclair’s muckraking classic, warmly inscribed by him to his patron, the social reformer and millionaire philanthropist Geoffrey D.
“INTO THIS WILD-BEAST TANGLE THESE MEN HAD BEEN BORN WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT”: PRESENTATION FIRST EDITION OF THE JUNGLE, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS PATRON, SOCIAL REFORMER AND PHILANTHROPIST GEOFFREY D.
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