Presidential Mission, Upton Sinclair
Presidential Mission, Upton Sinclair
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Presidential Mission

Author: Upton Sinclair

Series: Lanny Budd Novels #8

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 26 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2025

Synopsis

The year 1942 marked the turning point of World War II.The Americans destroyed the Japanese Battle Fleet in the decisive engagements of Midway and the Coral Sea. General Montgomery defeated General Rommel at El Alamein. But for President Roosevelt, 1942 was the darkest hour of the war. He knew the Germans were developing the atomic bomb. Our victories would be meaningless if the Nazis perfected the “A” bomb first. There was only one man who could find out the biggest Nazi secret of the war: Lanny Budd.This is the eighth novel in Upton Sinclair’s monumental Lanny Budd series of eleven. Listening to the entire series is indispensable to a true understanding of the forces that have shaped our tragic century.

About Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a journalist, a prominent social and political activist, and the author of over one hundred books, including the novel Dragon’s Teeth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. He is perhaps best known for The Jungle, the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt that culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on October 20, 2025

They are still in the process of converting this very long series of very long books into the Audible format so I had to wait a little bit for this to become available which meant I lost some of the benefit of reading a series one quickly after the other. Since this series is longitudinal reading it......more

Goodreads review by DanielL on July 27, 2020

As the US enters the war, Lanny Budd’s role as the President’s special agent becomes less secretive as he has to tell some of his friends, family, and others of his mission in order to keep them out of harm’s way. Those that he confides in tell Lanny Budd that they’ve suspected he wasn’t who he clai......more

Goodreads review by Eugenea on April 18, 2018

In my opinion, this book did not quite measure up to the others—the pacing felt erratic; the characterization of Laurel Creston had a false, patronizing ring to it. Was Sinclair’s commitment flagging? Is he tired of this daunting project? Are 21st-Century eyes too cynical? I will not abandon Lanny y......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 14, 2019

The last volume in the series, A World To Win, had ended in winter of early 1942 when U.S. was already at war, with Lanny coming out from the meeting with Stalin in Moscow, out in a city with the blackout due to war making it all dark except the stars above, and expected to be flown back to U.S. wit......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 14, 2019

The last volume in the series, A World To Win, had ended in winter of early 1942 when U.S. was already at war, with Lanny coming out from the meeting with Stalin in Moscow, out in a city with the blackout due to war making it all dark except the stars above, and expected to be flown back to U.S. wit......more

Quotes

“Sinclair’s historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions—government, press, corporations, oil cartels, and lobbyists—remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient.” The New York Times, praise for the series

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