{"product_id":"the-cry-for-justice-an-anthology-of-social-protest-9781609808365","title":"The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of Social Protest","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice. Selected from twenty-five languages, covering a period of five thousand years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This bold anthology of social protest, art, and literature is the preeminent collection of progressive thought, literature, and art through the ages, all in the service of voicing the struggle against social injustice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1915, shortly after the runaway success of his famous muckraking novel about the Chicago slaughterhouse industry, \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, Upton Sinclair took time out of his busy writing and political organizing life to collect and then edit into a single volume work by the artists, novelists, philosophers, poets, and journalists who had inspired him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This nearly thousand-page book includes work by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Euripides, Dante, Emile Zola, Leo Tolstoy, William Blake, John Keats, Edward Bellamy, Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and many, many others in the form of essays, stories, poems, tracts, jokes, protests, and first-person accounts. Together they highlight a long, undying progressive socialist tradition that most recently surfaced in Bernie Sanders's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. \u003ci\u003eThe Cry for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is not a history book, it's a book for inspiring a better future, as relevant today as when it was first published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eH. G. Wells, a contributor, referred to \u003ci\u003eThe Cry for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e as Sinclair's \"Book of Life.\" Jack London's enthusiastic introduction, in which he calls \u003ci\u003eThe Cry for Justice \u003c\/i\u003ea \"humanist Holy Book,\" ends with \"To see gathered here together this great body of human beauty and fineness and nobleness is to realize what glorious humans have already existed, do exist, and will continue increasingly to exist until all the world beautiful be made over in their image. We know how gods are made. Comes now the time to make a world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609808365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.60d","brand":"Upton Sinclair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448993087669,"sku":"9781609808365","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_14ba802d-e8db-46c4-b12e-66bad2073df1.jpg?v=1704215805","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-cry-for-justice-an-anthology-of-social-protest-9781609808365","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}