The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair
2022•26 min
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In 1934, famed writer and socialist Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California, leading a mass End Poverty movement. To defeat him that fall, his opponents created one of the dirtiest, and most influential, campaigns in U.S. history, and Hollywood took its first all-out plunge into politics.
Director: Greg Mitchell
Writers: Greg Mitchell
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