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The Brass Check

The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair is available here as the complete text, split into 0 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism by Upton Sinclair. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #64657.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 40 chapters

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The Brass Check

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  1. Chapter I 8 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II The Story of the Brass Check 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Open Sesame! 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Real Fight 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V An Adventure with Roosevelt 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Last Act 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII A Voice from Russia 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII he signed a contract with the “New York Journal,” and 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX The Village Horse-Doctor 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Great Panic 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI An Interview on Marriage 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII An Essential Monogamist 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII In the Lion’s Den 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV Journalism and Burglary 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV The “Heart Wife” 72 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI The Case of the “a. P.” 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII A Governor and His Lie 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII The Associated Press and Its Newspapers 50 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The Concrete Wall 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Roof-Garden of the World 56 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI The Daily Cat-and-Dog Fight 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Empire of Business 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV Owning the Press 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Owning the Owners 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI The Owner in Politics 60 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII The Owner and His Advertisers 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII The Advertising Ecstasy 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX The Bribe Wholesale 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Poison Ivy 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI The Press and Public Welfare 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The Press and the Socialists 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII The Press and Crime 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Press and Labor 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Associated Press and Labor 82 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI The Press and the War 60 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII “Bolshevism” in America 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII Cutting the Tiger’s Claws 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Mental Munition-Factory 46 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL The Press Set Free 101 readings five lines each Open chapter

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