Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th CenturySeven Stories Press, 2011 M01 4 - 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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... problem involving bribery and the Board of Aldermen. St. Louis had recently grown to become the fourth largest city ... problem, but a national problem. Shame was a relentless exposé of the nefarious dealings of politicians, corporations ...
... problem involving bribery and the Board of Aldermen. St. Louis had recently grown to become the fourth largest city ... problem, but a national problem. Shame was a relentless exposé of the nefarious dealings of politicians, corporations ...
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... problem, nor was it the gangsters who moved in and out of the backroom deals taking their cut and providing protection. The real villians were the supposedly upstanding corporate executives who believed they should do anything to make ...
... problem, nor was it the gangsters who moved in and out of the backroom deals taking their cut and providing protection. The real villians were the supposedly upstanding corporate executives who believed they should do anything to make ...
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... problem in its true light. With a tradition for public spirit, it may drop Butler and its runaway bankers, brokers, and brewers, and pushing aside the scruples of the hundreds of men down in blue book, and red book, and church register ...
... problem in its true light. With a tradition for public spirit, it may drop Butler and its runaway bankers, brokers, and brewers, and pushing aside the scruples of the hundreds of men down in blue book, and red book, and church register ...
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... problem of municipal government in America has not been solved. The people may be tired of it, but they cannot give it up — not yet. UPTON SINCLAIR W He was a romantic dreamer who wanted 52 Stories that Changed America.
... problem of municipal government in America has not been solved. The people may be tired of it, but they cannot give it up — not yet. UPTON SINCLAIR W He was a romantic dreamer who wanted 52 Stories that Changed America.
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Make Users Flesh Creep | 85 |
J WILLIAM FULBRIGHT | 105 |
Excerpt from Silent Spring | 121 |
EDWARD R MURROW | 135 |
Excerpt from The American Way of Death | 153 |
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