A book that changed the world: The Jungle

Quoted: “When he came to Chicago, he?s reported to have jumped off the train and said, ?I?m here to write the ?Uncle Tom?s Cabin? of Chicago,” says Russ Castronovo, professor of English and American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He always calculated this to have a certain type of dramatic social and political effect. And that was abetted by the fact that, as ?The Jungle? was making its way into print, Congress was debating food-safety legislation.”