Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century

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Examining the work of 21 investigative writers and how their efforts forever changed our country, this refreshing' (Kirkus Reviews) anthology features such authors as Upton Sinclaire, author of The Jungle, Ida Mae Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, journalist George Seldes, Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck, environmentalist Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Malcolm X, Ralph Nader, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the Watergate story and brought down President Richard Nixon.'

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"A refreshingly old-line-liberal anthology that celebrates twenty-one cursader journalists who needed to change the world with their words - and did." - Kirkus Reviews

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Carl Jensen, Ph.D. is the founder of Project Censored and author of the annual Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News and Why, as well as Twenty Years of Censored News. He has won the 1992 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in education and the 1996 James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, among several others. Hugh Downs is a veteran journalist and the co-anchor of ABC News's 20/20, with Barbara Walters. In his distinguished sixty-two year career in broadcasting, he has been a reporter, newscaster, interviewer, narrator and host. Winner of a number of Emmy Awards, he is also the author of several books, including Yours Truly, Hugh Downs and, most recently, Perspectives.