The third Lanny Budd novel — Upton Sinclair's account of the rise of Nazism in Germany, told through an American agent-dilettante who moves through European high society.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1943): Sinclair's most technically accomplished novel. The Lanny Budd series as a form of engaged historical fiction: using a fictional protagonist with access to real historical figures (Hitler, Göring, Roosevelt) to dramatize historical events. Dragon's Teeth covers 1930-1934 — the Nazi seizure of power — with remarkable historical precision.
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