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Stories that changed America : muckrakers of the 20th century

Author: Carl Jensen
Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, 2002, ©2000.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1st Trade paperbacks edView all editions and formats
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In this highly informative text, Carl Jenson examines 21 investigative writers, and their probing and influential work that forever changed the United States during the 20th century.
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carl Jensen
ISBN: 1583220275 9781583220276 158322517X 9781583225172
OCLC Number: 964601744
Description: 269 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Carl Jensen ; foreward by HughDowns.

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In this highly informative text, Carl Jenson examines 21 investigative writers, and their probing and influential work that forever changed the United States during the 20th century.

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