{"id":43454,"date":"2025-08-25T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43454"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:39:19","slug":"book-the-iron-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/book-the-iron-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTHE IRON HEEL\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Iron Heel<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Jack London<\/a>, Matt Soar (Narrator)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Generally considered to be \u201cthe earliest of the modern Dystopian,\u201d The Iron Heel<\/em> chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London\u2019s socialist views are most explicitly on display. London presents a fictional \u201cEverhard Manuscript\u201d, hidden and found centuries in the future. This book is a platform for him to espouse his socialist views and predict the collapse of capitalism. Very different from his other action novels, it envisions a future oligarchic tyranny in America and the rise of the Socialist party. The book has been credited with influencing George Orwell\u2019s Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jack London<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
London was part of the radical literary group \u201cThe Crowd\u201d in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers\u2019 rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos\u00e9 The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories \u201cTo Build a Fire\u201d, \u201cAn Odyssey of the North\u201d, and \u201cLove of Life\u201d. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as \u201cThe Pearls of Parlay\u201d and \u201cThe Heathen\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Iron Heel Jack London, Matt Soar (Narrator) Generally considered to be \u201cthe earliest of the modern Dystopian,\u201d The Iron Heel chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London\u2019s socialist views are most explicitly on display. London presents a fictional \u201cEverhard Manuscript\u201d,… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43455,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions\/43455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}