Forerunners of Revolution: Muckrakers and the American Social Conscience

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This book examines social investigative reporting in American history, focusing on the years 1890-1915.

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...Brasch concludes by making an insightful and intriguing distinction between muckraking and investigative reporting. * Journalism Quarterly *
...the book not only highlights the journalist's role in America, but also analyses the evolution of the press and society from the nation's emergence to the present. * Media Development *
Brasch's treatment blends investigative reporting, research, and analysis to present a scholarly yet lively review of how the muckrakers prompted changes in social awareness at the turn of the century.... * Midwest Book Review *
It is Brasch's theory that the 'muckraker' investigative journalism light was never extinguished and that muckraking, despite an eclipse in the 'me-too' 1980s, is very much alive. * Editor & Publisher *
It is Brasch's theory that the 'muckraker' investigative journalism light was never extinguished and that muckraking, despite an eclipse in the 'me-too' 1980s, is very much alive. * Editor & Publisher *
...Brasch concludes by making an insightful and intriguing distinction between muckraking and investigative reporting. * Journalism Quarterly *
...the book not only highlights the journalist's role in America, but also analyses the evolution of the press and society from the nation's emergence to the present. * Media Development *
Brasch's treatment blends investigative reporting, research, and analysis to present a scholarly yet lively review of how the muckrakers prompted changes in social awareness at the turn of the century.... * Midwest Book Review *

Author Bio

Walter M. Brasch is Professor of Journalism at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of The Press and the State: Sociohistorical and Contemporary Interpretations (UPA, 1986).