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Stories that changed America
muckrakers of the 20th century
By Jensen, Carl
- ISBN
- 978-1-58322-027-6
- Publisher
- New York : Seven Stories Press, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2000
Jensen (communications studies, Sonoma State Univ.), the author of Twenty Years of Censored News, expands his theme in this book to cover a century of muckrakers. Jensen presents 21 writers, including Edward R. Murrow, Upton Sinclair, Ida Mae Tarbell, and Seymour Hersh, as the initiators of muckracking and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2001
Adult/High School A professor emeritus of communications at Sonoma State University, Jensen produces an annual summary of the news stories that were most neglected (or censored) by the mainstream media. From his work as director of Project Censored came the popular compilation, Twenty Years of Censored News (Seven Stories, 1997). This new volume collects a century's worth of American muckraking, focusing on such noted authors as Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
