<span>The Jungle and the Progressive Era. The publication of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle produced an immediate and powerful effect on Americans and on federal policy, but Sinclair had hoped to achieve a very different result.</span>
It's an idiom because (It's) pretty good; (it's) not as unpleasant as one may have originally thought.
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