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...McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
...Year ago Upton Sinclair started his campaign with a running leap, announcing his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. To be sure, he was a Socialist, had run twice for Governor, once for U. S. Senator on the Socialist ticket. But he changed his party for convenience. Then he launched EPIC ("End Poverty In California"). He would pension every needy person over 60, every blind person, every widow with children at the rate of $50 a month. He would tax heavily all building land not built on, all farm land not farmed. He would exempt from taxation all homes...
...last spring straw polls showed him far and away the leading candidate for the nomination. California's conservatives got the jitters. Then San Francisco's general strike?in which Sinclair took no sides? brought a conservative reaction, how great no man knew. Last week, the jittery conservatives hoped that Upton Sinclair might not win the nomination, but from the standpoint of showmanship it did not matter. He had conducted a superlative campaign, original, dramatic, gripping. Hollywood's best director could not have done better...
...Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature has grown up. It deals with all the topics that literature deals with anywhere...
...Upton Sinclair once wrote: "When a man dies after three days without food, he dies of fright, not starvation. Unless that three days follows months of malnutrition and semi-starvation...