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I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked Paperback – December 16, 1994

by Upton Sinclair (Author), James Gregory (Introduction)
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Here, reprinted for the first time since its original publication, is muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair's lively, caustic account of the 1934 election campaign that turned California upside down and almost won him the governor's mansion.

Using his "End Poverty in California" movement (more commonly called EPIC) as a springboard, Sinclair ran for governor as a Democrat, equipped with a bold plan to end the Depression in California by taking over idle land and factories and turning them into cooperative ventures for the unemployed. To his surprise, thousands rallied to the idea, converting what he had assumed would be another of his utopian schemes into a mass political movement of extraordinary dimensions. With a loosely knit organization of hundreds of local EPIC clubs, Sinclair overwhelmed the moderate Democratic opposition to capture the primary election. When it came to the general election, however, his opposition employed highly effective campaign tactics: overwhelming media hostility, vicious red-baiting and voter intimidation, high-priced dirty tricks. The result was a resounding defeat in November.

I, Candidate tells the story of Sinclair's campaign while also capturing the turbulent political mood of the 1930s. Employing his trademark muckraking style, Sinclair exposes the conspiracies of power that ensured big-money control over the media and other powerful institutions.
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    272 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    University of California Press
  4. Publication date
    December 16, 1994
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.68 x 8.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0520081986
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0520081987
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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), novelist and journalist, is best known for his novel about the Chicago meatpacking industry, The Jungle. James N. Gregory is Professor of History at the Univesrity of Washington and author of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press (December 16, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520081986
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520081987
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.3 inches
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Upton Sinclair

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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    Terrific account of how politics really works, and how reform movements are easily derailed by the media and political elite. At once witty and wise, Sinclair provides a down-to-earth account of the EPIC campaign: End Poverty in California.
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    The book arrived within the expected time-frame in good to very good condition, as expected. The book is about a piece of California history that has disappeared. I look forward to learning more about the death of socialism in America.
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