Upton Sinclair, muckraking author of The Jungle, a 1906 novel about the horrors of the Chicago meat-packing industry, later founded the California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. Congress in the 1920s and lost a bid for governor in 1934, after founding the End Poverty in California (EPIC) movement. Read more Chicago and California history in Tazia and Gemma (see NOVELS).
