Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America

Author:   Stephanie Gorton ,  Maggi-Meg Reed
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Edition:   Library Edition
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9781094114392


Publication Date:   18 February 2020
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"A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm--as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America. The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as ""muckrakers"" and ""forces for evil."" The year was 1906, the president was Theodore Roosevelt--and the publication that provoked his fury was McClure's magazine. One of the most influential magazines in American history, McClure's drew over 400,000 readers and published the groundbreaking stories that defined the Gilded Age, including the investigation of Standard Oil that toppled the Rockefeller monopoly. Driving this revolutionary publication were two improbable newcomers united by single-minded ambition. S. S. McClure was an Irish immigrant, who, despite bouts of mania, overthrew his impoverished upbringing and bent the New York media world to his will. His steadying hand and star reporter was Ida Tarbell, a woman who defied gender expectations and became a notoriously fearless journalist. The scrappy, bold McClure's group--Tarbell, McClure, and their reporters Ray Stannard Baker and Lincoln Steffens--cemented investigative journalism's crucial role in democracy. From reporting on labor unrest and lynching, to their exposés of municipal corruption, their reporting brought their readers face to face with a nation mired in dysfunction. They also introduced Americans to the voices of Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and many others. Tracing McClure's from its meteoric rise to its spectacularly swift and dramatic combustion, Citizen Reporters is a thrillingly told, deeply researched biography of a powerhouse magazine that forever changed American life. It's also a timely case study that demonstrates the crucial importance of journalists who are unafraid to speak truth to power."

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Author:   Stephanie Gorton ,  Maggi-Meg Reed
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Edition:   Library Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781094114392


ISBN 10:   1094114391
Publication Date:   18 February 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Citizen Reporters is beautifully written, deeply reported, and worthy of its very worthy subjects...and reveals the urgent and necessary role played by investigative journalists. -- Louisa Thomas, author of Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams


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Stephanie Gorton has written for NewYorker.com, Smithsonian.com, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, The Millions, and other publications. Previously, she held editorial roles at Canongate Books, the Overlook Press, and Open Road. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and Goucher College's MFA program in creative nonfiction, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her family. Maggi-Meg Reed is the narrator of numerous popular audiobooks including Alex Kava's One False Move, Sebastien Japrisot's A Very Long Engagement, and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. Reed is a multiple Audie nominee, Earphones winner, and AudioFile Featured Narrator. In 2008, she was named the Best Voice in Fiction & Classics by AudioFile magazine. Her voice can also be heard on television and radio commercials across the country, and AudioFile Magazine has called her narrationfresh, intelligent, and attentive. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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