This is a Chautauqua 2007 portrayal of Upton Sinclair by actor Doug Mishler.
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) Born in Baltimore, Upon Sinclair was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and social activist. His most famous work, The Jungle, written in 1906 about conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry, led to the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Act. With money from that novel, Sinclair established his short-lived socialist community, Helicon Home Colony, in 1906 at Englewood, N.J. Sinclair was in and out of the American Socialist party. He ran as a Socialist for Governor of California in 1926 and 1930, and as a Democrat in 1934. In the 1940s his popular "Lanny Budd" series of novels were published, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for Dragon's Teeth about the rise of Nazism in Germany. He was a lifelong proponent of social equity and an opponent of big business.
Doug Mishler holds a Ph.D. in American culture from the University of Nevada, Reno, and has taught at the University of Nevada and Western Washington University. As a public historian, he has written a history of the Ringling Brothers Circus and has consulted on several public television and Chautauqua programs. Since 1996, Mishler has appeared at the Maryland Humanities Council Chautauqua as P. T. Barnum, Theodore Roosevelt, William Lloyd Garrison, and Henry Ford. He also portrays Ernie Pyle, Billy Sunday, William Clark, Andrew Carnegie, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas Hart Benton.
Chautauqua (shuh-taw-kwa) takes its name from a lake in upstate New York, beginning in 1874 as a training course for Sunday School teachers. In 1878 the Chautauqua movement expanded its philosophy of adult education to include an appreciation for the arts and humanities. By 1904, Chautauqua took to the road as part of the Lyceum movement, bringing lectures and entertainers to towns across America. By 1930, radio, movies, and automobiles had made Chautauqua largely a thing of the past.
Reborn as a public humanities program in 1976, today's Chautauquas feature scholars who take on the persona of celebrated historical figures, educating and entertaining audiences as they bring the past to life again.
If you would like to see the entire portrayal, contact the Maryland Humanities Council.
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