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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... criticism of corporate America , the fields of advertising and public relations rapidly grew in size and import . The ... critics who accuse journalists of being liberals will delight in knowing their charges are valid when it comes to ...
... criticism of corporate America , the fields of advertising and public relations rapidly grew in size and import . The ... critics who accuse journalists of being liberals will delight in knowing their charges are valid when it comes to ...
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... critic . He launched his twenty - one - book career in 1929 with the aptly titled You Can't Print That . In 1937 ... criticism and had 176,000 subscribers at its peak in 1947. Week after week , In fact would castigate the mainstream ...
... critic . He launched his twenty - one - book career in 1929 with the aptly titled You Can't Print That . In 1937 ... criticism and had 176,000 subscribers at its peak in 1947. Week after week , In fact would castigate the mainstream ...
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... criticism leveled at him by the Nation of Islam's hierarchy and disillusioned by his mentor's reported infidelity , Malcolm X became critical of Elijah Muhammad . The real break came on December 1 , 1963 , just nine days after the ...
... criticism leveled at him by the Nation of Islam's hierarchy and disillusioned by his mentor's reported infidelity , Malcolm X became critical of Elijah Muhammad . The real break came on December 1 , 1963 , just nine days after the ...
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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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