Muckraking
three landmark articles
by Ellen F. Fitzpatrick
This volume is built around three famous muckraking magazine articles - by Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Ray Stannard Baker. All drawn from the same issue of McClure's Magazine (January 1903), the most prominent muckraking journal of the day, the articles examine issues that were of crucial concern to political reformers in the Progressive era: urban political corruption, the emergence and behavior of giant corporations, and labor racketeering in industrial America.
An extensive introduction provides the historical context from which muckraking emerged, and an essay following the three articles discusses the legacy of muckraking. Questions to consider when reading the articles, a chronology of events during the Progressive era, illustrations, a bibliography, and an index are also included.
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Muckraking: three landmark articles
1994, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
in English
0312102801 9780312102807
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-124) and index.
"The essays reprinted in this volume appeared in the January 1903 edition of McClure's magazine"--P. 1.
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The January 1903 issue of McClure's Magazine was notable for including three crucial stories by investigative journalists — Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell — who uncovered political and corporate corruption. These exposés directly lead to the Progressive Era in America. Ellen Fitzpatrick has collected these articles, plus an editorial from S. S. McClure, and written a narrative that promises to help any student of history understand the causes and consequences of "muckracking".
The three articles republishe dhere are: "The Right to Work" by Ray Stannard Baker on the coal strike, "The Shame of Minneapolis" by Lincoln Steffens on political corruption, and "The Oil War of 1872" by Ida Tarbell on corporate corruption.
This book reminds us that democracy is fragile and America could easily have succumbed to kleptocracy, oligarchy, and loss of democracy in 1903. These articles are a key part of the story of how the American people reasserted the rule of law.
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