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What is Upton Sinclair best known for?

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Upton Sinclair is best known for his muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed the atrocious conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry and led to federal food-inspection laws. Sinclair would go on to write dozens of other books, tackling topics including the Teapot Dome Scandal, the murder trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and Henry Ford.