Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th CenturySeven Stories Press, 2002 M10 1 - 272 páginas Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law; "Queen of the Muckrakers" Ida Mae Tarbell, whose McClure magazine exposés led to the dissolution of Standard Oil's monopoly; and Lincoln Steffens, a reporter who unearthed corruption in both municipal and federal governments. You'll also meet Margaret Sanger, the former nurse who coined the term "birth control"; George Seldes, the most censored journalist in American history; Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck; environmentalist Rachel Carson; National Organization of Women founder Betty Friedan; African American activist Malcolm X; consumer advocate Ralph Nader; and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters whose Watergate break-in coverage brought down President Richard Nixon. The courageous writers Jensen includes in this deftly researched volume dedicated their lives to fight for social, civil, political and environmental rights with their mighty pens. |
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... American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford , published by Simon & Schuster , 1963 , reprinted by permission of Robert Treuhaft ; Betty Friedan , The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan . Copyright 1983 , 1974 , 1973 , 1963 by Betty Friedan ...
... American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford , published by Simon & Schuster , 1963 , reprinted by permission of Robert Treuhaft ; Betty Friedan , The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan . Copyright 1983 , 1974 , 1973 , 1963 by Betty Friedan ...
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... JESSICA MITFORD Excerpt from The American Way of Death Myth of the Twentieth - Century American Funeral Rite .144 .144 .146 .147 .153 .153 BETTY FRIEDAN .159 Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique .165 From 12 Stories that Changed America.
... JESSICA MITFORD Excerpt from The American Way of Death Myth of the Twentieth - Century American Funeral Rite .144 .144 .146 .147 .153 .153 BETTY FRIEDAN .159 Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique .165 From 12 Stories that Changed America.
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... America .... 191 From Chapter One : The Invisible Land .191 PAUL BRODEUR ... .197 Excerpt from Expendable Americans .203 The Dust that Ate Us Up .203 PAUL EHRLICH .... 209 Excerpts from The Population Bomb .215 Too Many People .215 Too ...
... America .... 191 From Chapter One : The Invisible Land .191 PAUL BRODEUR ... .197 Excerpt from Expendable Americans .203 The Dust that Ate Us Up .203 PAUL EHRLICH .... 209 Excerpts from The Population Bomb .215 Too Many People .215 Too ...
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... Cash Crops ... 266 From Part One : The Poisoned Food Chain .267 From Part Two : Protein Isn't Everything .268 About the Author ... .271 FOREWORD by Hugh Downs Th he very freedom that America's 14 Stories that Changed America.
... Cash Crops ... 266 From Part One : The Poisoned Food Chain .267 From Part Two : Protein Isn't Everything .268 About the Author ... .271 FOREWORD by Hugh Downs Th he very freedom that America's 14 Stories that Changed America.
Contenido
IDA MAE TARBELL | 27 |
EXCERPTS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY | 35 |
CREATING A MONOPOLY | 37 |
LINCOLN STEFFENS | 41 |
EXCERPT FROM THE SHAME OF THE CITIES | 47 |
UPTON SINCLAIR | 53 |
EXCERPTS FROM THE JUNGLE | 59 |
BUBBLY CREEK LARD | 63 |
JESSICA MITFORD | 147 |
EXCERPT FROM THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH | 153 |
BETTY FRIEDAN | 159 |
EXCERPT FROM THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE | 165 |
MALCOLM X | 171 |
EXCERPT FROM ALEX HALEYS PLAYBOY INTERVIEW WITH MALCOLM X | 179 |
EXCERPT FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X | 181 |
MICHAEL HARRINGTON | 185 |
MARGARET SANGER | 67 |
EXCERPTS FROM THE WOMAN REBEL | 73 |
ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES | 74 |
SUPPRESSION | 75 |
A LITTLE LESSON FOR THOSE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER | 77 |
GEORGE SELDES | 79 |
EXCERPTS FROM IN FACT | 85 |
61 EXCESS DEATHS | 86 |
DOCUMENTATION | 87 |
EXCERPT FROM THE FACTS ARE | 88 |
JOHN STEINBECK | 91 |
EXCERPT FROM THE GRAPES OF WRATH | 97 |
J WILLIAM FULBRIGHT | 105 |
EXCERPTS FROM THE PENTAGON PROPAGANDA MACHINE | 111 |
INFORMATION TO PROPOGANDA | 114 |
RACHEL CARSON | 117 |
EXCERPT FROM SILENT SPRING | 123 |
I F STONE | 125 |
EXCERPT FROM I F STONES WEEKLY | 131 |
EDWARD R MURROW | 135 |
EXCERPTS FROM IN SEARCH OF LIGHT | 141 |
SEE IT NOW BROADCASTMARCH 9 1954 | 144 |
CBS NEWS BROADCASTMAY 2 1957 | 146 |
EXCERPT FROM THE OTHER AMERICA | 191 |
PAUL BRODEUR | 197 |
EXCERPT FROM EXPENDABLE AMERICANS | 203 |
PAUL EHRLICH | 209 |
EXCERPTS FROM THE POPULATION BOMB | 215 |
TOO LITTLE FOOD | 217 |
A DYING PLANET? | 218 |
RALPH NADER | 221 |
EXCERPT FROM UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED | 227 |
THE ONECAR ACCIDENT | 230 |
SEYMOUR HERSH | 233 |
EXCERPT FROM MY LAI 4 | 239 |
THE DAYPART II | 243 |
BOB WOODWARD and CARL BERNSTEIN | 245 |
EXCERPT FROM THE WASHINGTON POST | 253 |
FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ | 259 |
EXCERPT FROM DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET | 265 |
CULTURAL EATING HABITS | 266 |
CASH CROPS | 267 |
PROTEIN ISNT EVERYTHING | 268 |
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Página 19 - Pilgrim's Progress" you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand ; who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.
Página 23 - We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on. There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion...