I, Candidate for Governor And How I Got Licked

Name: I, Candidate for Governor And How I Got Licked
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ISBN: 9780520081987

ISBN-10: 0520081986

ISBN-13: 9780520081987

Edition: 1994

Authors: Upton Sinclair, James N. Gregory

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/16/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

James N. Gregory is professor of history at the University of Washington and director of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. He is author of the award-winning American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California.