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Adam Morris

Adam Morris is a writer and translator in California. He is the author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation.

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The Menace of the Hour, by George Luks, 1899.

Roundtable

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse. More

Cover of I, Governor of California—And How I Ended Poverty (1934) by Upton Sinclair.

Roundtable

Mankind, Unite!

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult. More