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Upton Sinclair

Negative Campaigns and Big Money: Election Season in the Ancient World

In a recent edition of The New Yorker, staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore chronicled the  rise of political consulting  and the negative campaign. Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter founded Campaigns, Inc. in the 1930s and their work helped defeat Upton Sinclair in his bid for Governor of California.   Whitaker and Baxter may have started the […]

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