Mcclure S Magazine And The Muckrakers

Author : Harold S. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872305

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McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers by Harold S. Wilson Pdf

McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American scene (Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle) and fearlessly championed the important causes of the day (from betterment of conditions in the coal mines to antitrust measures). This is the story of McClure's lifespan, beginning in Ohio when Samuel McClure gathered around himself a talented group of editors and writers (among them Willa Cather. Frank Norris. Stephen Crane, O. Henry. Hamlin Garland) and continuing to the magazine's last days in New York City. The growing concern of the staff about American urban and commercial life led to such exposes as Ida Tarbell's History of Standard Oil and Lincoln Steffens' Shame of the Cities. McClure's was a channel for those determined to combat the ills of society, and one of the first voices of the emerging Progressive Party. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0013869144

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McClure's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030751676

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McClure's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lincoln Steffens
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486147666

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The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens Pdf

Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.

Author : Stephanie Gorton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062796660

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Citizen Reporters by Stephanie Gorton Pdf

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as “muckrakers” and “forces for evil.” The year was 1906, the president was Theodore Roosevelt—and the publication that provoked his fury was McClure’s magazine. One of the most influential magazines in American history, McClure’s drew over 400,000 readers and published the groundbreaking stories that defined the Gilded Age, including the investigation of Standard Oil that toppled the Rockefeller monopoly. Driving this revolutionary publication were two improbable newcomers united by single-minded ambition. S. S. McClure was an Irish immigrant, who, despite bouts of mania, overthrew his impoverished upbringing and bent the New York media world to his will. His steadying hand and star reporter was Ida Tarbell, a woman who defied gender expectations and became a notoriously fearless journalist. The scrappy, bold McClure's group—Tarbell, McClure, and their reporters Ray Stannard Baker and Lincoln Steffens—cemented investigative journalism’s crucial role in democracy. From reporting on labor unrest and lynching, to their exposés of municipal corruption, their reporting brought their readers face to face with a nation mired in dysfunction. They also introduced Americans to the voices of Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and many others. Tracing McClure’s from its meteoric rise to its spectacularly swift and dramatic combustion, Citizen Reporters is a thrillingly told, deeply researched biography of a powerhouse magazine that forever changed American life. It’s also a timely case study that demonstrates the crucial importance of journalists who are unafraid to speak truth to power.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803263732

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The Autobiography of S.S. McClure by Willa Cather Pdf

S. S. McClure was one of America?s greatest editors and publishers in the lively era of muckraking reform. He is remembered for McClure?s Magazine, which early in the twentieth century published the works of famous authors and social reformers. He was also the mentor of young Willa Cather. After leaving her position at McClure?s in 1912, Cather ghosted this graceful portrait of her former boss. ø Cather?s developing style is clear throughout The Autobiography of S. S. McClure. She goes far inside her subject to find his voice and catch the rhythms of his exciting life: his immigration from Ireland to America, his Horatio Alger?like rise from poverty and struggle to success. Cather shows the risks he took in forming the first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which gave him access to such literary masters as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. His extensive contacts were advantageous later in establishing McClure?s, the medium for muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. These famous figures, and many others, enter into The Autobiography of S. S. McClure, which was originally published in 1914, just as Cather was launching her own illustrious career as a novelist

Author : Ida Tarbell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948742160

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The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell Pdf

Part of Belt's Revivals Series, a classic of muckraking journalism with a new introduction by Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia and Pure America . Cleveland oil tycoon Jo

Author : Peter Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Investigative reporting
ISBN : UCAL:B3529376

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Success Story by Peter Lyon Pdf

Biography of S. S. McClure, an Irish-American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.

Author : Arthur Weinberg,Lila Shaffer Weinberg
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081296597

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The Muckrakers by Arthur Weinberg,Lila Shaffer Weinberg Pdf

Come of the most significant magazine articles of 1902-1912.

Author : Harold S. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : McClure's magazine
ISBN : OCLC:1015116274

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Mc Clure's Magazine and the muckrakers by Harold S. Wilson Pdf

Author : Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085522

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All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography by Ida M. Tarbell Pdf

This is an autobiography of Ida Minerva Tarbell, an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191624919

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Pdf

A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described in intense detail by an author bent on social reform. So powerful was the book's message that it caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt and led to changes to the food hygiene laws. In his Introduction to this new edition, Russ Castronovo highlights the aesthetic concerns that were central to Sinclair's aspirations, examining the relationship between history and historical fiction, and between the documentary impulse and literary narrative. As he examines the book's disputed status as novel (it is propaganda or literature?), he reveals why Sinclair's message-driven fiction has relevance to literary and historical matters today, now more than a hundred years after the novel first appeared in print.

Author : Kathleen Brady
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822980162

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Ida Tarbell by Kathleen Brady Pdf

In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America’s great journalists. Ida Tarbell’s generation called her “a muckraker” (the term was Theodore Roosevelt’s, and he didn’t intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as “an investigative reporter,” with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the most powerful women of her time in the United States: admired, feared, hated. When her History of the Standard Oil Company was published, first in McClure’s Magazine and then as a book (1904), it shook the Rockefeller interests, caused national outrage, and led the Supreme Court to fragment the giant monopoly. A journalist of extraordinary intelligence, accuracy, and courage, she was also the author of the influential and popular books on Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, and her hundreds of articles dealt with public figures such as Louis Pateur and Emile Zola, and contemporary issues such as tariff policy and labor. During her long life, she knew Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Henry James, Samuel McClure, Lincoln Stephens, Herbert Hoover, and many other prominent Americans. She achieved more than almost any woman of her generation, but she was an antisuffragist, believing that the traditional roles of wife and mother were more important than public life. She ultimately defended the business interests she had once attacked. To this day, her opposition to women’s rights disturbs some feminists. Kathleen Brady writes of her: “[She did not have] the flinty stuff of which the cutting edge of any revolution is made. . . . Yet she was called to achievement in a day when women were called only to exist. Her triumph was that she succeeded. Her tragedy ws that she was never to know it.”

Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203752

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Exposés and Excess by Cecelia Tichi Pdf

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers—Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them—became bestsellers and prizewinners a hundred years ago; today, Cecelia Tichi notes, they have found their worthy successors in writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Schlosser, and Naomi Klein. In Exposés and Excess Tichi explores the two Gilded Ages through the lens of their muckrakers. Drawing from her considerable and wide-ranging work in American studies, Tichi details how the writers of the first muckraking generation used fact-based narratives in magazines such as McClure's to rouse the U.S. public to civic action in an era of unbridled industrial capitalism and fear of the immigrant "dangerous classes." Offering a damning cultural analysis of the new Gilded Age, Tichi depicts a booming, insecure, fortress America of bulked-up baby strollers, McMansion housing, and an obsession with money-as-lifeline in an era of deregulation, yawning income gaps, and idolatry of the market and its rock-star CEOs. No one has captured this period of corrosive boom more acutely than the group of nonfiction writers who burst on the scene in the late 1990s with their exposés of the fast-food industry, the world of low-wage work, inadequate health care, corporate branding, and the multibillion-dollar prison industry. And nowhere have these authors—Ehrenreich, Schlosser, Klein, Laurie Garrett, and Joseph Hallinan—revealed more about their emergence as writers and the connections between journalism and literary narrative than in the rich and insightful interviews that round out the book. With passion and wit, Exposés and Excess brings a literary genre up to date at a moment when America has gone back to the future.

Author : Aileen Gallagher
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1404201971

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The Muckrakers by Aileen Gallagher Pdf

Learn about the journalists who helped change America.