He was also the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression, but was defeated in the 1934 elections.
Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. Time magazine called him “a man with every gift except humor and silence.” He is remembered for writing the famous line: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Actand the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckrakingnovel, The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S.
Novelist, writer, journalist, political activist, politician as depicted on the cover of Times Magazine in 1934.
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