The Campaign of the Century

This book explores the incredible story of how Upton Sinclair, a lifelong socialist and author of "The Jungle," won the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934. His mass movement EPIC aimed to end poverty in the state and was met with over one thousand chapters formed, similar to Occupy Wall Street. Sinclair's opponents launched an unprecedented public relations attack against him, resulting in a revolution in American politics and the birth of the "spin doctor" era. The book is a riveting blow-by-blow narrative, featuring famous figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Louis B. Mayer, and Katharine Hepburn that brings to life an outrageous campaign that forever transformed the electoral process.