Anyone who went to high school in the last 50 years no doubt knows Upton Sinclair for his Chicago meatpacking expose "The Jungle," but he was much more than an undercover muckraker.

Sinclair moved to California in 1915 and by 1934 he had run for two congressional seats, formed California's ACLU and got the Democratic nomination for governor of the state. Off-Ramp's Kevin Ferguson talked to The Nation's Greg Mitchell, whose newly reprinted book "The Campaign of the Century" focuses on Sinclair's run for governor, and how the campaign gave birth to the modern American political campaign.