Research Catalog

Title

Stories that changed America : muckrakers of the 20th century / Carl Jensen.

Author

Jensen, Carl.

Publication

New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

270 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Contains excerpts from the writings of Ida Mae Tarbell -- Lincoln Steffens -- Upton Sinclair -- Margaret Sanger -- George Seldes -- John Steinbeck -- J. William Fulbright -- Rachel Carson -- I.F. Stone -- Edward R. Murrow -- Jessica Mitford -- Betty Friedan -- Malcolm X -- Michael Harrington -- Paul Brodeur -- Paul Ehrlich -- Ralph Nader -- Seymour Hersh -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Frances Moore Lappé.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Journalists > United States > Biography
• Investigative reporting > United States > History > 20th century
• Reportage literature, American > History and criticism
• Investigative reporting > United States
• Investigative reporting > Social aspects > United States
• Investigative reporting > Political aspects > United States
• Investigative reporting
• Journalists
• Reportage literature, American
• Onthullingsjournalistiek
• Journalisten
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Hugh Downs -- Introduction : muckraking in the Twentieth Century -- Ida Mae Tarbell -- Excerpts from The History of the Standard Oil Company -- Young John Davison Rockefeller -- Creating a monopoly -- Lincoln Steffens -- Excerpt from The Shame of the Cities -- Tweed days n St. Louis -- Upton Sinclair -- Excerpt from The Jungle -- Tour of the stockyards -- Bubbly Creek lard -- Spoiled meat -- Margaret Sanger -- Excerpts from The Woman Rebel -- The aim -- Abortion in the United States -- Suppression -- A little lesson for those who ought to know better -- George Seldes -- Excerpts from In Fact -- Cigarets shorten life -- Tobacco shortens life -- Make users' flesh creep -- 61% excess deaths -- Journalistic bombshell -- Documentation -- Excerpt from The Facts Are ... -- The greatest power in war and peace -- John Steinbeck -- Excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath -- Who can we shoot? -- J. William Fulbright -- Excerpts from The Pentagon Propaganda Machine -- The Starbird Memorandum -- Information to propaganda -- Rachel Carson -- Excerpt from Silent Spring -- A fable for tomorrow -- I.F. Stone -- Excerpt from I.F. Stone's Weekly -- A crisis and a turning point approaches in Vietnam -- Edward R. Murrow -- Excerpts from In Search of Light -- CBS news broadcast, March 10, 1950 -- CBS news broadcast, February 23, 1954 -- See It Now broadcast, March 9, 1954 -- CBS news broadcast, June 10, 1954 -- CBS news broadcast, May 2, 1957 -- Jessica Mitford -- Excerpt from The American Way of Death -- Myth of the Twentieth-Century American funeral rite -- Betty Friedan -- Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique -- The comfortable concentration camp -- Malcolm X -- Excerpt from Alex Haley's Playboy interview with Malcolm X -- Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- Letter from Mecca -- Michael Harrington -- Excerpt from The Other America -- The invisible land -- Paul Brodeur -- Excerpt from Expendable Americans -- The dust that ate us up -- Paul Ehrlich -- Excerpt from The Population Bomb -- Too many people -- Too little food -- A dying planet -- Ralph Nader -- Excerpt from Unsafe at Any Speed -- Who benefits from auto accidents? -- The sporty Corvair : the "one-car" accident -- Seymour Hersh -- Excerpt from My Lai 4 -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Excerpt from The Washington Post -- GOP security aide among five arrested in bugging affair -- Frances Moore Lappé -- Excerpt from Diet for a Small Planet -- The beginning -- Cultural eating habits -- Cash crops -- The poisoned food chain -- Protein isn't everything.

ISBN

• 1583220275
• 9781583220276
• 158322517X
• 9781583225172

LCCN

00020365

OCLC

• ocm43323638
• 43323638
• SCSB-1135360

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library