Re: Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Berg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>A socialist interpretation of the contribution of the Arms industry to
>making war from before WWI to WWII.  How many books in the series?  How well
>have they stood up--as fact and story?
>
Eleven books in the series. The first ten were churned out one per year
(and they are substantial volumes) from 1940-1949 and the last one in
1953.

Its 30 years since I read them end-to-end. Southampton Public Library
had a uniform edition (with the Stars & Stripes on the spine?) taking up
a whole shelf. This drew my attention as I was then working night shifts
as a hospital porter and usually had a couple of hours each night with
little to do but sit by the phone. (the same job allowed me to plough
through Henry Williamson's A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series).

If memory serves, they were good page-turners but became less overtly
polemical as the series progressed, certainly compared to Sinclair's
earlier celebrated works.
-- 
Peter Millen, boardgamer and boulevardier.
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