The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two: Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning series, books four through six featuring a well-connected American art dealer who goes undercover for FDR during WWII.

Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business deal with Hermann Göring, Lanny Budd is able to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information for those dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He's playing a dangerous game, which will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.

The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny embarks on a secret assignment that takes him to the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler. But Lanny's motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her.

Dragon Harvest: Lanny has earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle. But when he learns of the Führer's plans for conquest, his dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders fall on deaf ears. There will be no stopping the Nazi war machine as it rolls relentlessly on toward Paris.

"Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human." — Time

"Remarkably shrewd and often prescient." — The New York Times

"When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair's] novels." —George Bernard Shaw

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning series, books four through six featuring a well-connected American art dealer who goes undercover for FDR during WWII. Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business deal with Hermann Göring, Lanny Budd is able to move easily among the Nazi high ...

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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state's ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of Ne...

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