Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century
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Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century
By (Author) Carl Jensen
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
1st August 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
News media and journalism
071.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
270
Width 1mm, Height 1mm
537g
Description
In this exuberantly written, highly informative book, Carl Jensen introduces twenty-one investigative writers, and their probing and influential work that has forever changed the views and attitudes of many in the US and throughout the rest of the world. Featured writers include: Carl Bernstein, Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, J William Fulbright, Seymour Hersh, Jessica Mitford, Ralph Nader, John Steinbeck, I F Stone, Bob Woodward, and Malcolm X.
Reviews
"A refreshingly old-line-liberal anthology that celebrates 21 crusader journalists who needed to change the world with their wordsand did."Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
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.
