Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, which exposed hazardous working conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking plants, first appeared serially in a socialist newspaper before being published as a novel.
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After Sinclair won the California Democratic primary in 1934, business and media elites helped derail his bid for the governorship.
The leftist Democratic Socialists of America was tiny before the 2016 election. Now, with 90,000 dues-paying members and four seats in Congress, the DSA is upending Democratic politics nationwide.
Until the 1930s, American radicals stood apart from the two mainstream parties. That changed when a muckraking journalist ran for governor of California.
