Muckraking : Three Landmark Articles

by Fitzpatrick, Ellen F.

• ISBN13: 9780312089443
• ISBN10: 0312089449
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Printed together for the first time since their original publication in 1903, Ray Stannard Baker's piece on the coal strike, "The Right to Work"; Lincoln Steffens' expose of political corruption, "The Shame of Minneapolis"; and Ida Tarbell's story of corporate villainy, "The Oil War of 1872"; along with an editorial from S. S. McClure and the narrative of Ellen Fitzpatrick, invite students to explore and understand "muckraking."

Author Biography

Ellen F. Fitzpatrick is associate professor of history and currently a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University. Her book entitled Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (1990) was selected as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1990-1991 by Choice Magazine. Fitzpatrick has published numerous articles on women's history and social reform. She is currently at work on a book about American historical writing in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v	(2)
Preface	vii
INTRODUCTION Late-Nineteenth-Century America and the Origins of Muckraking	1	(40)
The Impact of Industrialism	3	(5)
The "Magazine Revolution"	8	(4)
The Making of the Journalists	12	(11)
Finding the Story: The Genesis of the Muckrakers' Investigative Reporting	23	(1)
Tarbell and "The Oil War of 1872"	23	(4)
Steffens and "The Shame of Minneapolis"	27	(5)
Baker and "The Right to Work"	32	(9)
The Documents	41	(62)
Lincoln Steffens
"The Shame of Minneapolis"	43	(17)
Ida M. Tarbell
"The Oil War of 1872"	60	(21)
Ray Stannard Baker
"The Right to Work"	81	(20)
S. S. McClure
Editorial: Concerning Three Articles in this Number of McClure's, and a Coincidence that May Set Us Thinking	101	(2)
CONCLUSION Muckraking and Its Aftermath	103	(14)
The Contemporary Response to Muckraking	106	(6)
The Demise of Muckraking	112	(5)
APPENDICES	117	(8)
A Brief Chronology of the Muckraking Years (1890-1912)	117	(5)
Suggestions for Further Reading	122	(3)
Index	125