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An Eagle's Wings Clipped - The Story of America's Strife in the Early 1900s
Threadmarks: Prologue, Part I - William Randolph Hearst's Mayorality, The New England VP, and Oliver's Early LifeToday, May 30th, 2011, is the sixtieth anniversary of the much celebrated and adored American Holiday of Re-unification Day, when the Nation's almost fourteen year long civil war ended, which began the 40 year long dictatorship of Benjamin G.(lenn) A.(shley) S.(hannon) Oliver before he was...- Threadmarks
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What if Upton Sinclair became President?
In 1926, Upton Sinclair ran for Governor of California as a Socialist, winning 4.02% while Businessman Justus Wardell won 24.69% and Lieutenant Governor C. C. Young, a progressive who primaried the more conservative governor Friend Richardson (a victory of 1.99%), would win the election itself...- TheDoofusUser
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WI: Upton Sinclair becomes Governor of California
In 1934 Upton Sinclair, the famous socialist muckraker who wrote The Jungle, ran for the governorship of California, running as a progressive Democrat against the incumbent Republican Governor Frank Merriam. In the midst of the Great Depression, Sinclair had some radical ideas for re-starting...- Bomster
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