Stories that Changed America Muckrakers of

Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, this paperback edition of Stories That Changed America examines the work of 21 investigative journalists and public figures whose reformist writings changed America forever. Profiled here are such outspoken muckrakers as Upton Sinclair, whose The Jungle inspired the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act; Lincoln Steffens, who uncovered corruption in both city and federal governments; and other notables such as Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Malcolm X, and Ralph Nader.

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	p. 15
Ida Mae Tarbell	p. 25
Excerpts from The History of the Standard Oil Company	p. 33
Young John Davison Rockefeller	p. 33
Creating a Monopoly	p. 35
Lincoln Steffens	p. 39
Excerpt from The Shame of the Cities	p. 45
Tweed Days in St. Louis	p. 45
Upton Sinclair	p. 51
Excerpts from The Jungle	p. 57
From Chapter Three: Tour of the Stockyards	p. 57
From Chapter Nine: Bubbly Creek Lard	p. 61
From Chapter Fourteen: Spoiled Meat	p. 61
Margaret Sanger	p. 65
Excerpts from The Woman Rebel	p. 71
The Aim	p. 71
Abortion in the United States	p. 72
Suppression	p. 73
A Little Lesson for Those Who Ought to Know Better	p. 75
George Seldes	p. 77
Excerpts from In fact	p. 83
Cigarets Shorten Life	p. 83
Tobacco Shortens Life	p. 83
Make Users' Flesh Creep	p. 83
61% Excess Deaths	p. 84
Journalistic Bombshell	p. 84
Documentation	p. 85
Excerpt from The Facts Are ...	p. 86
The Greatest Power in War and Peace	p. 86
John Steinbeck	p. 89
Excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath	p. 95
From Chapter Five: Who Can We Shoot?	p. 95
J. William Fulbright	p. 103
Excerpts from The Pentagon Propaganda Machine	p. 109
From Chapter One: The Starbird Memorandum	p. 109
From Chapter Two: Information to Propoganda	p. 112
Rachel Carson	p. 115
Excerpt from Silent Spring	p. 121
A Fable for Tomorrow	p. 121
I. F. Stone	p. 123
Excerpt from I. F. Stone's Weekly	p. 129
A Crisis and a Turning Point Approaches in Vietnam	p. 129
Edward R. Murrow	p. 133
Excerpts from In Search of Light	p. 139
CBS news broadcast - March 10, 1950	p. 139
CBS news broadcast - February 23, 1954	p. 139
See It Now broadcast - March 9, 1954	p. 142
CBS news broadcast - June 10, 1954	p. 142
CBS news broadcast - May 2, 1957	p. 144
Jessica Mitford	p. 145
Excerpt from The American Way of Death	p. 151
Myth of the Twentieth-Century American Funeral Rite	p. 151
Betty Friedan	p. 157
Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique	p. 163
From Chapter Twelve: The Comfortable Concentration Camp	p. 163
Malcolm X	p. 169
Excerpt from Alex Haley's Playboy Interview with Malcolm X	p. 177
Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X	p. 179
From Chapter Seventeen: Letter from Mecca	p. 179
Michael Harrington	p. 183
Excerpt from The Other America	p. 189
From Chapter One: The Invisible Land	p. 189
Paul Brodeur	p. 195
Excerpt from Expendable Americans	p. 201
The Dust that Ate Us Up	p. 201
Paul Ehrlich	p. 207
Excerpts from The Population Bomb	p. 213
Too Many People	p. 213
Too Little Food	p. 215
A Dying Planet	p. 216
Ralph Nader	p. 219
Excerpt from Unsafe at Any Speed	p. 225
Who Benefits from Auto Accidents?	p. 225
The Sporty Corvair: The 'One-Car' Accident	p. 228
Seymour Hersh	p. 231
Excerpts from My Lai 4	p. 237
From Chapter Three: The Day - Part I	p. 237
From Chapter Four: The Day - Part II	p. 241
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein	p. 243
Excerpt from the Washington Post	p. 251
GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging Affair	p. 251
Frances Moore Lappe	p. 257
Excerpt from Diet for a Small Planet	p. 263
From the Foreword: The Beginning	p. 263
From Part One: Cultural Eating Habits	p. 264
From Part One Cash Crops	p. 264
From Part One: The Poisoned Food Chain	p. 265
From Part Two: Protein Isn't Everything	p. 266
About the Author	p. 269
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