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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920426
Author:JONATHAN YARDLEY

THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CENTURY Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and The Birth of Media Politics By Greg Mitchell Random House. 665 pp. $27.50

FRANKLIN DELANO Roosevelt had been president for less than two years as the off-year campaign of 1934 got under way. The New Deal was as yet more noble rhetoric and high hopes than actual accomplishment; whether the trauma of the Depression could be relieved within the system, as FDR promised, or whether the public would demand more radical approaches, was still far from certain. So when the Democrats of California chose as their ...

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