The Muckrakers

by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Shaffer Weinberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069862
• ISBN13: 9780252069864
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"