Stories that Changed America Muckrakers of

Selections from the century's greatest dirt-digging journalists: Upton Sinclair, Margaret Sanger, George Seldes, John Steinbeck, Rachel Carson...and on: the author provides rich & informative biographies of each, contextualizing the work.

DR. CARL JENSEN is a professor emeritus of Sociology and Communications Studies at Sonoma State University in California and the author of Censored-The News That Didn't Make the News and Why from 1976 to 1996, and 20 Years of Censored News, in 1997. He founded Project Censored, the internationally recognized media research project, in 1976.

Introduction: Muckraking in the Twentieth Century

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(10)

Ida Mae Tarbell

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(14)

Excerpts from The History of the Standard Oil Company

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(6)

Young John Davison Rockefeller

33

(2)

Creating a Monopoly

35

(4)

Lincoln Steffens

39

(12)

Excerpt from The Shame of the Cities

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(6)

Tweed Days in St. Louis

45

(6)

Upton Sinclair

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(14)

Excerpts from The Jungle

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(8)

From Chapter Three: Tour of the Stockyards

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(4)

From Chapter Nine: Bubbly Creek Lard

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(1)

From Chapter Fourteen: Spoiled Meat

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(4)

Margaret Sanger

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(12)

Excerpts from The Woman Rebel

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(6)

The Aim

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(1)

Abortion in the United States

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(1)

Suppression

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(2)

A Little Lesson for Those Who Ought to Know Better

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(2)

George Seldes

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(12)

Excerpts from In fact

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(3)

Cigarets Shorten Life

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(1)

Tobacco Shortens Life

83

(1)

Make Users' Flesh Creep

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(1)

61% Excess Deaths

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(1)

Journalistic Bombshell

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(1)

Documentation

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(1)

Excerpt from The Facts Are...

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(3)

The Greatest Power in War and Peace

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(3)

John Steinbeck

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(20)

Excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath

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(14)

From Chapter Five: Who Can We Shoot?

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(8)

J. William Fulbright

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(6)

Excerpts from The Pentagon Propaganda Machine

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(6)

From Chapter One: The Starbid Memorandum

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(6)

From Chapter Two: Information to Propoganda

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(3)

Rachel Carson

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(8)

Excerpt from Silent Spring

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(2)

A Fable for Tomorrow

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(2)

I. F. Stone

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(10)

Excerpt from I. F. Stone's Weekly

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(4)

A Crisis and a Turning Point Approaches in Vietnam

129

(4)

Edward R. Murrow

133

(12)

Excerpts from In Search of Light

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(6)

CBS news broadcast---March 10, 1950

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(1)

CBS news broadcast---February 23, 1954

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(3)

See It Now broadcast---March 9, 1954

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(1)

CBS news broadcast---June 10, 1954

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(2)

CBS news broadcast---May 2, 1957

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(1)

Jessica Mitford

145

(12)

Excerpt from The American Way of Death

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(6)

Myth of the Twentieth-Century American Funeral Rite

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(6)

Betty Friedan

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(12)

Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique

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(6)

From Chapter Twelve: The Comfortable Concentration Camp

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(6)

Malcolm X

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(14)

Excerpt from Alex Haley's Playboy Interview with Malcolm X

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(2)

Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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(4)

From Chapter Seventeen: Letter from Mecca

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(4)

Michael Harrington

183

(12)

Excerpt from The Other America

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(6)

From Chapter One: The Invisible Land

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(6)

Paul Brodeur

195

(12)

Excerpt from Expendable Americans

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(6)

The Dust that Ate Us Up

201

(6)

Paul Ehrlich

207

(12)

Excerpts from The Population Bomb

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(6)

Too Many People

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(2)

Too Little Food

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(1)

A Dying Planet

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(3)

Ralph Nader

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(12)

Excerpt from Unsafe at Any Speed

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(6)

Who Benefits from Auto Accidents?

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(3)

The Sporty Corvair: The `One-Car' Accident

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(3)

Seymour Hersh

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(12)

Excerpts from My Lai 4

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(6)

From Chapter Three: The Day---Part I

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(4)

From Chapter Four: The Day---Part II

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(2)

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

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(14)

Excerpt from The Washington Post

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(6)

GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging Affair

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(6)

Frances Moore Lappe

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(12)

Excerpt from Diet for a Small Planet

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(6)

From the Foreword: The Beginning

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(1)

From Part One: Cultural Eating Habits

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(1)

From Part One: Cash Crops

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(1)

From Part One: The Poisoned Food Chain

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(1)

From Part Two: Protein Isn't Everything

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(3)

About the Author

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Stories that Changed America Muckrakers of the 20th Century

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