Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation

Upton Sinclair

The author, 1925 - Literary Collections - 390 pages

"A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, . . . in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief." ―Upton Sinclair, Mammonart Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) by Upton Sinclair consists mainly of critiques of many great artists from Homer to Mark Twain and from Michelangelo to Jack London. It is one in a series of six books the author wrote analyzing American institutions from a socialist perspective. Other books in this muckraking Dead-Hand collection, include: The Profits of Religion (religion, 1917), The Brass Check (journalism, 1919), The Goose-Step (higher education, 1923), The Goslings (education, 1924), and Money Writes! (literature, 1927), all available from Cosimo Classics.

Contents

• CHAPTER PAGE I Ogi the Son of Og: 1
• Who Owns the Artists?: 7
• Art and Personality: 11
• The Laborer and His Hire: 14
• The Lords Anointed: 16
• Artificial Childhood: 19
• Mrs Ogi Emerges: 21
• The HorseTrade: 23
• The Class Lie: 25
• Mrs Ogi Orders Jazz: 27
• The Populist Convention: 29
• Kansas and Judea: 32
• The Communist Almanac: 35
• Gods Propaganda: 38
• Mrs Prestonia Orders Plumbing: 40
• Mrs Ogi Orders Etiquette: 42
• William Randolph Alcibiades: 45
• The Age of HeroWorship: 46
• Hundred Per Cent Athenian: 49
• The Funny Man of Reaction: 52
• Athens and Los Angeles: 56
• The Slave Empire: 58
• Dumb Pious Eneas: 60
• The Roman Four Hundred: 63
• The American Empire: 68
• The Christian Revolution: 70
• The Ins and the Outs: 71
• The Heaven of Elegance: 74
• The Muckrakers Hell: 77
• The Pious Poisoners: 80
• The Papal Paymasters: 84
• Who Is Crazy?: 88
• CHAPTER PAGE XXXIII Ogi Anglomaniac: 92
• Phosphorescence and Decay: 95
• The Good Man Theory: 98
• Comic Relief: 101
• Praise for Puritans: 105
• Comrades Progress: 110
• Vanity Fair: 113
• Glory Propaganda: 116
• Unbridled Desires: 120
• The Harpooner of Hypocrisy: 124
• Écrasez lInfame: 130
• The Trumpeter of Revolution: 135
• The Harvard Manner: 139
• The Poisoned Rat: 142
• Virtue Rewarded: 144
• The Good Fellows Code: 146
• The Gauger of Genius: 148
• The Brain Proprietor: 150
• Politics Is Fate: 154
• Behind the HedgeRows: 159
• Tory Romance: 163
• The Meaning of Magic: 167
• The Tory Whip: 171
• The Fear That Kills: 173
• The First Lord of Letters: 175
• The Angel of Revolt: 178
• The StableKeepers Son: 183
• The Predatory Artist: 190
• The Old Communard: 194
• Tyger Tyger: 199
• The Child of His Age: 202
• Prayer in Adultery: 204
• Main Street in France: 206
• The Mattress Grave: 209
• SiegfriedBakunin: 211
• CHAPTER PAGE LXVIII The Gospel of Silence: 216
• The Lullaby Laureate: 220
• HighBrow Society: 225
• Official Pessimism: 228
• God Save the People: 231
• The Collector of Snobs: 233
• Arts and Crafts: 236
• Seeing America First: 239
• The Age of Innocence: 242
• A SnowBound Saint: 244
• Puritanism in Decay: 246
• The Angel Israfel: 249
• The Good Grey Poet: 253
• Cabbage Soup: 258
• Dead Souls: 260
• The Russian Hamlet: 263
• The DeadHouse: 265
• The Christian BullDog: 268
• The Peasant Count: 271
• Headaches and Dyspepsia: 276
• The Troughs of Zolaism: 279
• The Sportive Demon: 283
• The Foe of Formulas: 285
• The Biological Superior: 289
• The Overman: 291
• The Octopus Cities: 295
• The Inspired Parrakeet: 298
• The Green Carnation: 302
• The White Chrysanthemum: 307
• The Duel of Wit: 312
• The CulturedClass Historian: 316
• The Premier Novelist: 322
• The Uncrowned King: 326
• Smiling America: 333
• The Eminent TankardMan: 337
• CHAPTER PAGE CIII The Soldier of Fortune: 341
• The Bowery Boy: 345
• The California Octopus: 349
• The OldFashioned American: 353
• BadgadontheSubway: 357
• Supermanhood: 363
• The Stealthy Nemesis: 372
• The Rebel Immortal: 379
• A TextBook for Russia: 383

About the author

UPTON SINCLAIR (1878-1968) a prolific American writer and muckraker, contributor to many socialist publications, and political activist, wrote about worker rights, free speech, and health. Among his many books are The Fasting Cure (1911), King Coal (1917), and the Dead Hand series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation; The Dead Hand
• Author: Upton Sinclair
• Publisher: The author, 1925
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Dec 1, 2007
• ISBN: 1646798376, 9781646798377
• Length: 390 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism; Religion / Christian Church / History