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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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Groundbreaking Anthology Of The Most Eye-Opening Investigive Writing In U.S. History; Examining the work of twenty-one investigative writers and how their efforts forever changed their country, this groundbreaking anthology features such authors, journalist and professional muckrakers as: Upton Sinclaire, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, which single-handedly changed the meat packing industry in America forever; Ida Mae Tarbell, whose McClure magazine exposes led to the dissolution of Standard Oil's monopoly; Lincoln Steffens, a reporter who unearthed corruption In both the municipal and federal US governments; Margaret Sanger, the former nurse who coined the term "birth control"; George Seldes, the most censored journalist in American history; plus Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck; environmentalist Rachel Carson; Malcolm X; Ralph Nader, and 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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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.

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  • PublisherSEVEN STORIES PRESS
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 158322517X
  • ISBN 13 9781583225172
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages272
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