Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergThe Muckrakers
Author: Arthur Myron WeinbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780399501661
Category : Political corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
MUCKRAKERS: THE ERA IN JOURNALISM THAT MOVED AMERICA TO REFORM.
Author: ED WEINBERGThe Muckrakers. The Era in Journalism that Moved America to Reform-the Most Significant Magazine Articles of 1902-1912. Edited and with Notes by Arthur and Lila Weinberg. (Second Impression.).
Author: Arthur WEINBERG (and WEINBERG (Lila))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Muckrakers : the era in journalism that moved America to reform- the most significan magazine articles of 1902-1912
Author: Arthur Myron ed WeinbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Muckrakers ; the Era in Journalism that Moved America to Reform-the Most Significant Magazine ...
Author: The Muckrakers
Author: Aileen GallagherPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404201972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Learn about the journalists who helped change America.
The Muckrakers and the Progressive Era
Author: Laurie Collier HillstromPublisher: Omnigraphics Incorporated
ISBN: 9780780810938
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Provides a detailed account of the muckraking movement in early twentieth-century American journalism and its contribution to progressive reforms. Explores how the muckraking tradition and progressive political ideas have continued through the modern era. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
The Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
As the twentieth century opened, Americans were jolted out of their laissez-faire complacency by detailed exposures, in journalism and fiction, of the corruption underlying the country's greatest institutions. This rude awakening was the work of the muckrakers, as Theodore Roosevelt christened these press agents for reform. From 1902, when it latched onto such mass circulation magazines as Collier's and McClure's, until it merged into the Progressive movement in 1912, muckraking relentlessly pricked the nation's social conscience by exposing the abuses of industry and politics. Ranging in tone from the scholarly to the sensational, muckraking articles attacked food adulteration, unscrupulous insurance practices, fraudulent claims for patent medicines, and links between government and vice. When muckrakers raised their voices against child labor, graft, monopoly, unsafe mill conditions, and the white slave trade of poor immigrant girls, they found a receptive audience. "I aimed at the public's heart," wrote Upton Sinclair about The Jungle, "and by accident I hit it in the stomach." Gathering the most significant pieces published during the heyday of the muckraking movement, The Muckrakers brings vividly to life this unique era of exposure and self-examination. For each article, Arthur and Lila Weinberg provide concise commentary on the background of its subject and the specific and long-range repercussions of its publication. The volume features the work of both journalists and fiction writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Ray Stannard Baker, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Thomas W. Lawson, Charles Edward Russell, and Mark Sullivan. Eloquent and uncompromising, the muckrakers shocked America from a state of lethargy into Progressive reform. This generous volume vividly captures the urgency of their quest.
The Social and Political Ideas of the Muckrakers
Author: David Mark ChalmersPublisher: New York : Citadel Press
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
During the first decade of the twentieth century, a small group of professional journalists flooded the popular magazines with detailed exposés of the corruption that had accompanied the growth of industry and the development of a business society in the United States. They examined almost all aspects of American life and paved the way for the reforms of the Progressive Era. This book carefully studies what each one had to say. All of them developed definite explanations for the crisis, and each of them suggested what might be done about it. The free institutions of the nation were being menaced by the growth of concentrated economic power and the spreading web of commercialism which came with it. The journalists agreed that the fault came from the fact that the profit motive had become enthroned in America and business had become the dominant national institution, because the development of corporate wealth-seeking had outstripped the national legislative and moral awareness. Out of their work emerges a fascinating picture of American life during the turn of the century and the First World War.--From publisher description.