Download or read book A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man written by Upton Sinclair and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.