For 10 points—name this man who wrote about slaughterhouse worker Jurgis Rudkus in The Jungle.
He ran for governor in 1934 on the End Poverty in California platform, and after his narrow defeat he produced novels based on the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the Teapot Dome scandal, respectively entitled Boston and Oil!. A decade earlier, he wrote a work which caused Theodore Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and endorse the Pure Food and Drug Act. For 10 points—name this man who wrote about slaughterhouse worker Jurgis Rudkus in The Jungle.
He ran for governor in 1934 on the End Poverty in California platform, and after his narrow defeat he produced novels based on the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the Teapot Dome scandal, respectively entitled Boston and Oil!. A decade earlier, he wrote a work which caused Theodore Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and endorse the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton {Sinclair}