(#169258) WE, PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND HOW WE ENDED POVERTY. A TRUE STORY OF THE FUTURE ... A BOOK LIKE THIS MADE HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA. THIS ONE WILL MAKE IT IN 48 STATES. PRICE 20 CENTS. PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL EPIC LEAGUE ... [cover title]. Upton Sinclair.

WE, PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND HOW WE ENDED POVERTY. A TRUE STORY OF THE FUTURE ... A BOOK LIKE THIS MADE HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA. THIS ONE WILL MAKE IT IN 48 STATES. PRICE 20 CENTS. PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL EPIC LEAGUE ... [cover title]. Pasadena, California: Published by National EPIC League, n.d. [1935]. Octavo, pp. 1-64, original pictorial green wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. "One of Sinclair's campaign pamphlets, a prophecy of what would happen if he were elected governor of California and the movement spread to the other states in the elections of 1938" (Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 178). "... a fictionalized projection of a snowballing EPIC movement on a national scale, mobilizing around the 1936 and 1938 elections" (Ahouse). The End Poverty in California (EPIC) movement was the centerpiece of Sinclair's unsuccessful 1936 gubernatorial campaign. Ahouse A56a. Gottesman A1647. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 208. Some soiling to wrappers, a very good copy with clean interior. (#169258).

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