Reading Oil! | Alexandria
Read Oil! by Upton Sinclair. Exposing the dark underbelly of America's oil boom, Oil! rips through sanitized narratives of industrial progress to reveal how one boy's moral compass shatters amid corruption, greed, and class warfare. While denouncing capitalism, Sinclair unexpectedly portrays oil barons as trapped victims of their own system - a nuanced take that resonates in today's debates about corporate power.