Stories That Changed America

Muckrakers of the 20th Century

Carl Jensen

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Politics & government; Press & journalism

"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 exposes 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."

By: Carl Jensen
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 537g
ISBN: 9781583220276
ISBN 10: 1583220275
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

DR. CARL JENSEN is a professor emeritus of Sociology and Communications Studies at Sonoma State University in California and the author of Censored-The News That Didn't Make the News and Why from 1976 to 1996, and 20 Years of Censored News, in 1997. He founded Project Censored, the internationally recognized media research project, in 1976.

Reviews for Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century

"""A refreshingly old-line-liberal anthology that celebrates 21 crusader journalists who needed to change the world with their words—and did."" —Kirkus Reviews"