<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never set foot on our shores, but he had a clear and highly personal vision of what we were and what we had been</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">To keep Upton Sinclair from becoming governor of California in 1934, his opponents invented a whole new kind of campaign.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.</span></p>