Muckrakers Evangelical Crusaders

Name: Muckrakers Evangelical Crusaders
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ISBN: 9780275969158

ISBN-10: 0275969150

ISBN-13: 9780275969158

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert Miraldi

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This collection of essays provides a critical and scholarly assessment of muckraking journalists at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributors discuss how spiritual values led journalists to seek social change, through crusades and exposes, sometimes at the price of public confusion and cynicism. They explore how the richest church in America was forced to clean up its tenement houses, how a Buffalo newspaper crusaded for improvements in living conditions for immigrants, why women journalists were keys to civic improvement efforts, and how muckraking and the crusading spirit permeated the press even in small towns. The authors place these stories in the context of various facets…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 8/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Introduction: Why the Muckrakers Are Still with Us




The Muckrakers as Evangelicals




Anatomy of a Crusade: The Buffalo News' Campaign for Immigrants




Muckraking the World's Richest Church




Women and Expose: Reform and Housekeeping




Lincoln Steffens: The Paradoxical Muckraker




Small-town Editor, Big-time Fight




Did the Muckrakers Muck Up Progress?



Epilogue: Muckraking and the Ethic of Caring



Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Editor and Contributors