bsrsharma,
Fabulous post. I love “The Jungle”, have read it several times and find it equally heart wrenching every time I read it.
I recently read a book called “The Worst Hard Time”, a true story about the Dust Bowl. It has references to the sales brochures that were used to entice people to buy land in the new developments, complete with drawings of cute little towns, shaded by big shade trees, when if reality they were selling barren parcels of land without a tree in site.
