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A 16-part series that examines the events between the end of World war I in 1918 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 through newsreels, soundtracks, and archival footage. DVD format.

[v.4. We have a plan]: The story of socialist author Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for governor of California is told. Sinclair's epic plan to end poverty in California called for seizing unused factories and fields (and film studios) and turning them over to the unemployed to run as self-managing cooperatives. Sinclair won the Democratic nomination and received 900,000 votes against the Republican incumbent. In the process he scared the pants off California's...