The Muckrakers: Evangelical Crusaders

by Robert Miraldi

This collection of essays provides a critical and scholarly assessment of muckraking journalists at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributors discuss how spiritual values led journalists to seek social change, through crusades and expos D'es, sometimes at the price of public confusion and cynicism. They explore how the richest church in America was forced to clean up its tenement houses, how a Buffalo newspaper crusaded for improvements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275969150
• ISBN13: 9780275969158
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"