Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century

by Carl Jensen

Book Overview

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 expos s led to the dissolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583220275
• ISBN13: 9781583220276
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"