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

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From: The Nation
Date: 19920525
Author:Schrag, Peter

THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CENTURY- Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics. By Greg Mitchell. Random House. 635 pp. 2750.

In August 28, 1934, the darkest time of the Depression, Upton Sinclair, novelist, muckraker, socialist, won the Democratic primary for governor of California and thereby set in motion what Greg Mitchell calls "the campaign of the century." The reference is not to Sinclair's own campaign, which was amateurish and clumsy, but to that of the great force that came to be arrayed against him: the big Hollywood studios, which ...

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