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Robert Cruickshank commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics
David’s lead-in states what I’ve understood to be the case from the 1934 election, that it helped consolidate a new progressive base that led not only to Olson’s 1938 win, but eventually to Democratic dominance of state politics by the late 1950s. What was it in Sinclair’s campaign that achieved that, and how did he and his supporters try and counter the corporate/studio lies?
