Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th CenturySeven Stories Press, 2000 - 270 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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... Senate was a chamber of bosses with one senator from each state representing the politi- cal machine in his state , and the other senator representing the leading busi- nessmen . Together , they victimized the ordinary citizens . When ...
... Senate was a chamber of bosses with one senator from each state representing the politi- cal machine in his state , and the other senator representing the leading busi- nessmen . Together , they victimized the ordinary citizens . When ...
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... Senator , I think I never really gauged your cruelty or recklessness . " He begged that " this lad be not assassi- nated further . " He asked if the Senator had " no sense of decency . " Mr. Welch , a veteran of the courtroom , was near ...
... Senator , I think I never really gauged your cruelty or recklessness . " He begged that " this lad be not assassi- nated further . " He asked if the Senator had " no sense of decency . " Mr. Welch , a veteran of the courtroom , was near ...
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... Senator . He was pressing Mr. Cohn - but by Mr. Cohn's admission doing him no personal injury - when Senator McCarthy delivered his attack upon Mr. Fisher , at which point Counsel Welch reacted like a human being . MAY 2 , 19575 Senator ...
... Senator . He was pressing Mr. Cohn - but by Mr. Cohn's admission doing him no personal injury - when Senator McCarthy delivered his attack upon Mr. Fisher , at which point Counsel Welch reacted like a human being . MAY 2 , 19575 Senator ...
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Muckraking in the Twentieth Century | 15 |
Excerpts from The History of the Standard Oil Company | 30 |
Excerpt from The Shame of the Cities | 44 |
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