Muckraker+(Upton+Sinclnair)

A muckraker is a person who is a reform-minded journalist who wrote popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be an influence until World War 1. Upton Sinclair was born September 20, 1878 and died November 25, 1968. Sinclair's popular book was titled The Jungle. Sinclair also ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Socialist, and was the Democratic party nominee for Governor of California in 1934, though his highly progressive campaign was defeated rather fast.