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
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.
Muckrakers
Author: Ann BausumPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301377
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Tells how investigative reporting began with the muckrakers in the early 20th century.
The Muckrakers
Author: Arthur WeinbergPublisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Political corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Come of the most significant magazine articles of 1902-1912.
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 Muckrakers
Author: Arthur Myron WeinbergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780399501661
Category : Political corruption
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Afro-American Press and Its Editors
Author: Irvine Garland PennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Brass Check
Author: Upton SinclairPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150402611X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media, arguing that the newspapers, magazines, and wire services of the Progressive era formed “a class institution serving the rich and spurning the poor.” In the early twentieth century, a “brass check” was a token purchased by brothel patrons. By drawing a comparison between journalists and prostitutes, Sinclair highlights the total control publishers such as William Randolph Hearst exerted over their empires. Reporters and editors were paid to service the financial and political interests of their bosses, even if that meant misrepresenting the facts or outright lying. Sinclair documents specific cases, including the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 and the Red Scare whipped up by Hearst’s New York Journal and other newspapers, in which major news outlets ignored the truth in favor of tabloid sensationalism. Sinclair considered The Brass Check to be his most important and most dangerous book. Nearly a century later, his impassioned call for reform is timelier than ever. This ebook has been authorized by the estate of Upton Sinclair.