ple is socialism. Because socialism was a rather radical option as a remedy to the political and socioeconomic ills of the immigrants, Sinclair went to great lengths to emphasize the suffering of the immigrant workers and their families at the hands of the evil capitalists. This is not to say that the immigrants did not suffer, for they certainly did, as Slayton himself stresses. The question, however, is the impact of the ideological motivation of the author on his book. In other words, does the author manipulate the basic facts for the purpose of pressing his favorite dogma (as Sinclair does), or does he present all the aspects of his findings, even those aspects which do not reflect well on his mild biases (as does Slayton).
As an historian, Slayton aims to show all the facts and to interpret them according to his inevitable biases. Were Slayton a Russian Communist instead of an American from an American college having a book published by a large capitalist
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