The Plum Tree

Name: The Plum Tree
Author: David Graham Phillips

by David Graham Phillips

Novel exploring ambition, betrayal, and consequences within American industrial capitalism

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David Graham Phillips

David Graham Phillips was a muckraking journalist and novelist who exposed the corruption of the Senate and the social exploitation of women with passionate reformist energy. His assassination cut short a major career.

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