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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... tion list to help get started . Seldes was one of the first media watchdogs to criticize the press for cen- soring information connecting tobacco with cancer . In 1938 , he tried , without success , to get the press to report the ...
... tion list to help get started . Seldes was one of the first media watchdogs to criticize the press for cen- soring information connecting tobacco with cancer . In 1938 , he tried , without success , to get the press to report the ...
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... tion with his father's financial help . Instead , he arrived in New York to dis- cover that his father , finally fed up with his son's fruitless search for truth , had cut off his support . In a letter that was awaiting Steffens at the ...
... tion with his father's financial help . Instead , he arrived in New York to dis- cover that his father , finally fed up with his son's fruitless search for truth , had cut off his support . In a letter that was awaiting Steffens at the ...
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... tion — his anger — would have been considerably less . It seems to this reporter that there is a widespread tendency on the part of all human beings to believe that because a thing happens to a stranger , or to someone far away , it ...
... tion — his anger — would have been considerably less . It seems to this reporter that there is a widespread tendency on the part of all human beings to believe that because a thing happens to a stranger , or to someone far away , it ...
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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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