How I Got Licked And Why.

London: T. Werner Laurie Ld, 1935.. 1st British edition. Published in the US under the title "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked". "This is Sinclair's story of the famous Epic movements and his campaign to end poverty in California, and it is a revelation of what money can do in American politics and what it does do when its privileges are threatened....His book is interesting to English readers, showing as it does the appalling lengths vested interests can go to in America in the way of political bribing, dishonesty and graft." Pp.215/ix(appendix: A Proclamation to the Peopleof California), 38 black & white illustrations, occasional pencil marginal marks and notations and profuse pencil notation to rear endpapers. Publisher's review request slip + 4 page (pro-Sinclair) publisher's printed review entitled "This Cock-Eyed World"(anon) loosely enclosed. Black cloth with green titles to front and spine, black & white photo illustrated dustwrapper a little dusty with edge losses to top and tail of spine, top rear edge and corner tips but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce with dustwrapper. G+/G.** "In 1934, Sinclair ran in the California gubernatorial election as a Democrat. Sinclair's platform, known as the End Poverty in California movement (EPIC), galvanized the support of the Democratic Party, and Sinclair gained its nomination. Gaining 879,000 votes made this his most successful run for office, but incumbent Governor Frank Merriam defeated him by a sizable margin, gaining 1,138,000 votes. Hollywood studio bosses unanimously opposed Sinclair. They pressured their employees to assist and vote for Merriam's campaign, and made false propaganda films attacking Sinclair, giving him no opportunity to respond." (wiki).