The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics by Greg Mitchell

The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics

Greg Mitchell

686 pages • first pub 1992 (view editions)

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In 1934, voters hoping to turn the tide of the Great Depression backed an unlikely candidate for governor of California: Upton Sinclair, muckraking author of "The Jungle" and lifelong socialist. Amazingly, Sinclair swept the Democratic primary, le...

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