Chapter I: Front Matter

MAMMONART

_An Essay in Economic Interpretation_

BY

UPTON SINCLAIR

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

COPYRIGHT, 1924, 1925
BY
UPTON SINCLAIR

First edition, February, 1925, 4,000 copies, clothbound,
4,000 copies, paperbound.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Ogi, the Son of Og 1

II. Who Owns the Artists? 7

III. Art and Personality 11

IV. The Laborer and His Hire 14

V. The Lord’s Anointed 16

VI. Artificial Childhood 19

VII. Mrs. Ogi Emerges 21

VIII. The Horse-Trade 23

IX. The Class Lie 25

X. Mrs. Ogi Orders Jazz 27

XI. The Populist Convention 29

XII. Kansas and Judea 32

XIII. The Communist Almanac 35

XIV. God’s Propaganda 38

XV. Mrs. Prestonia Orders Plumbing 40

XVI. Mrs. Ogi Orders Etiquette 42

XVII. William Randolph Alcibiades 45

XVIII. The Age of Hero-Worship 46

XIX. Hundred Per Cent Athenian 49

XX. The Funny Man of Reaction 52

XXI. Athens and Los Angeles 56

XXII. The Slave Empire 58

XXIII. Dumb Pious Æneas 60

XXIV. The Roman Four Hundred 63

XXV. The American Empire 68

XXVI. The Christian Revolution 70

XXVII. The Ins and the Outs 71

XXVIII. The Heaven of Elegance 74

XXIX. The Muckraker’s Hell 77

XXX. The Pious Poisoners 80

XXXI. The Papal Paymasters 84

XXXII. Who Is Crazy? 88

XXXIII. Ogi, Anglomaniac 92

XXXIV. Phosphorescence and Decay 95

XXXV. The Good Man Theory 98

XXXVI. Comic Relief 101

XXXVII. Praise for Puritans 105

XXXVIII. Comrade’s Progress 110

XXXIX. Vanity Fair 113

XL. Glory Propaganda 116

XLI. Unbridled Desires 120

XLII. The Harpooner of Hypocrisy 124

XLIII. Écrasez l’Infame 130

XLIV. The Trumpeter of Revolution 135

XLV. The Harvard Manner 139

XLVI. The Poisoned Rat 142

XLVII. Virtue Rewarded 144

XLVIII. The Good Fellow’s Code 146

XLIX. The Gauger of Genius 148

L. The Brain Proprietor 150

LI. Politics Is Fate 154

LII. Behind the Hedge-Rows 159

LIII. Tory Romance 163

LIV. The Meaning of Magic 167

LV. The Tory Whip 171

LVI. The Fear That Kills 173

LVII. The First Lord of Letters 175

LVIII. The Angel of Revolt 178

LIX. The Stable-Keeper’s Son 183

LX. The Predatory Artist 190

LXI. The Old Communard 194

LXII. Tyger, Tyger! 199

LXIII. The Child of His Age 202

LXIV. Prayer in Adultery 204

LXV. Main Street in France 206

LXVI. The Mattress Grave 209

LXVII. Siegfried-Bakunin 211

LXVIII. The Gospel of Silence 216

LXIX. The Lullaby Laureate 220

LXX. High-Brow Society 225

LXXI. Official Pessimism 228

LXXII. God Save the People 231

LXXIII. The Collector of Snobs 233

LXXIV. Arts and Crafts 236

LXXV. Seeing America First 239

LXXVI. The Age of Innocence 242

LXXVII. A Snow-Bound Saint 244

LXXVIII. Puritanism in Decay 246

LXXIX. The Angel Israfel 249

LXXX. The Good Grey Poet 253

LXXXI. Cabbage Soup 258

LXXXII. Dead Souls 260

LXXXIII. The Russian Hamlet 263

LXXXIV. The Dead-House 265

LXXXV. The Christian Bull-Dog 268

LXXXVI. The Peasant Count 271

LXXXVII. Headaches and Dyspepsia 276

LXXXVIII. The Troughs of Zolaism 279

LXXXIX. The Sportive Demon 283

XC. The Foe of Formulas 285

XCI. The Biological Superior 289

XCII. The Overman 291

XCIII. The Octopus Cities 295

XCIV. The Inspired Parrakeet 298

XCV. The Green Carnation 302

XCVI. The White Chrysanthemum 307

XCVII. The Duel of Wit 312

XCVIII. The Cultured-Class Historian 316

XCIX. The Premier Novelist 322

C. The Uncrowned King 326

CI. Smiling America 333

CII. The Eminent Tankard-Man 337

CIII. The Soldier of Fortune 341

CIV. The Bowery Boy 345

CV. The California Octopus 349

CVI. The Old-Fashioned American 353

CVII. Badgad-on-the-Subway 357

CVIII. Supermanhood 363

CIX. The Stealthy Nemesis 372

CX. The Rebel Immortal 379

CXI. A Text-Book for Russia 383

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