Mental Radio

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C.C. Thomas, 1962 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 237 pages
World-renowned author of The Jungle and described as a "prophet of social justice", Upton Sinclair astounded his readers and the scientific world with a bold venture into the paranormal. Written in 1929 by Sinclair with his wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, Mental Radio is the product of Sinclair's reading -- hundreds of volumes on psychic research -- followed by three years of intense, hands-on scientific investigation into psychic phenomena. Without doubt, Sinclair's in-depth study of his wife's telepathic abilities helped establish the paranormal as a subject worthy of scientific consideration. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Upton Sinclair, a lifelong vigorous socialist, first became well known with a powerful muckraking novel, The Jungle, in 1906. Refused by five publishers and finally published by Sinclair himself, it became an immediate bestseller, and inspired a government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, which led to much reform. In 1967 he was invited by President Lyndon Johnson to "witness the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which will gradually plug loopholes left by the first Federal meat inspection law" (N.Y. Times), a law Sinclair had helped to bring about. Newspapers, colleges, schools, churches, and industries have all been the subject of a Sinclair attack, analyzing and exposing their evils. Sinclair was not really a novelist, but a fearless and indefatigable journalist-crusader. All his early books are propaganda for his social reforms. When regular publishers boycotted his work, he published himself, usually at a financial loss. His 80 or so books have been translated into 47 languages, and his sales abroad, especially in the former Soviet Union, have been enormous.

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