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The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools

By Upton Sinclair

2022-06-02 22:46:02

Excerpt (from the introductory).....The purpose of this book is to show you how the “invisible government” of Big Business which controls the rest of America has taken over the charge of your children. In the course of a public debate wit ... Read more

Excerpt (from the introductory).....The purpose of this book is to show you how the “invisible government” of Big Business which controls the rest of America has taken over the charge of your children. In the course of a public debate with the writer, in the Civic Club in New York City, May, 1922, Dr. Tildsley, district superintendent of the public school system of that city, made the statement: “I do not know any school system in the United States which is run for the benefit of the children. They are all run for the benefit of the gang.” This statement, made upon high authority, is the thesis of “The Goslings.” Come with me and let me show you what is this “gang” which runs the school system of the United States; how they got their power, what xuse they make of it, and what this means to the bodies and minds of your twenty-three million little ones.....

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File size933.459 KB
Print pages360
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN979-8468939451
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Upton Sinclair
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (Sep 20, 1878 – Nov 25, 1968) was an American writer, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and othe...

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