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New page: '''Upton Sinclair''' was an American writer, whose best known book nowadays is ''The Jungle'' (1908). ''The Jungle'' was a "muckraking" book about the meat packing industry. While it...
'''Upton Sinclair''' was an American writer, whose best known book nowadays is ''The Jungle'' (1908). ''The Jungle'' was a "[[muckraking]]" book about the meat packing industry. While it is the book he is remembered for today, he wrote several others that were best-sellers of their time, such as the Lanny Budd series (1940-1953) beginning with ''World's End'', that were set during the [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] eras and incorporated then-current events into the novels. In total he wrote over 90 books. Most of those books are today quite obscure.
Upton Sinclair's political views were [[leftist]] and [[socialist]]. He ran for public office several times, running for the U.S. Congress on the [[Socialist Party]] ticket in 1906 and 1920, the [[United States Senate]] on the Socialist Party ticket in 1922, and for governor of [[California]] on the [[Democratic Party]] ticket in 1934. The last of those runs was the only one in which he ever came close to winning public office. His 1934 run as a Democrat frightened a lot of people, who saw his EPIC (End Poverty In California) plan as an elaborate back-door scheme to bring [[communism]] to California, and he lost the election. Remarking on his electoral attempts in 1951, he said, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it...", adding that he had only won 60,000 votes running as a Socialist on an open platform of socialism, but 879,000 votes running as a Democrat on an "End Poverty In California" platform.
Upton Sinclair was a co-founder, along with fellow Socialist Party members [[Jack London]] and [[Norman Thomas]], of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] in 1905. This is the group whose student wing (the Student League for Industrial Democracy) would go on to change their name to [[Students for a Democratic Society]] in 1960 and become the genesis of the [[New Left]] campus unrest of the 1960s.
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Upton Sinclair's political views were [[leftist]] and [[socialist]]. He ran for public office several times, running for the U.S. Congress on the [[Socialist Party]] ticket in 1906 and 1920, the [[United States Senate]] on the Socialist Party ticket in 1922, and for governor of [[California]] on the [[Democratic Party]] ticket in 1934. The last of those runs was the only one in which he ever came close to winning public office. His 1934 run as a Democrat frightened a lot of people, who saw his EPIC (End Poverty In California) plan as an elaborate back-door scheme to bring [[communism]] to California, and he lost the election. Remarking on his electoral attempts in 1951, he said, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it...", adding that he had only won 60,000 votes running as a Socialist on an open platform of socialism, but 879,000 votes running as a Democrat on an "End Poverty In California" platform.
Upton Sinclair was a co-founder, along with fellow Socialist Party members [[Jack London]] and [[Norman Thomas]], of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]] in 1905. This is the group whose student wing (the Student League for Industrial Democracy) would go on to change their name to [[Students for a Democratic Society]] in 1960 and become the genesis of the [[New Left]] campus unrest of the 1960s.
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