Oil! A NovelAlthough Sinclair asserted that the only personalities to be recognized in this book are three Presidents of the United States and goes on to say the reader sho spends his time seeking to identify oil magnates and moving picture stars will be wasting time, it seems more than likely Sinclair used Los Angeles oil tycoon Edward Doheny as the model for the character, J. Arnold Ross. Banned in Boston as salacious, this was the basis for the movie There