Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” (1903) Jack London’s experiences during the Klondike gold rush in the Yukon were the inspiration for “The Call of the Wild.” He saw the way dogsled teams behaved and how their owners treated (and mistreated) them. In the book, the dog Buck’s comfortable life is upended when gold is discovered in the Klondike. From then on, survival of the fittest becomes Buck’s mantra as he learns to confront and survive the harsh realities of his new life as a sled dog. W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) “Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people.
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