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Citizen reporters : S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the magazine that rewrote America

Gorton, Stephanie 1984- (author.).

Summary: "A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm--and a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America"--

Record details

ISBN: 006279664X
ISBN: 9780062796646
Physical Description: xiv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Prologue -- Part I: Origins. A country for youth -- Oildorado -- A Garibaldi type of mind -- Among the furies -- New York -- "I fall in love" -- Part II: Rise. The moving spirit of the time -- The uneasy woman -- Facts properly told -- The brilliant mind -- The gentleman reporter -- Big game -- You have the moon yet, ain't It? -- The Cleveland ogre -- Part III: Fall. The shame of S.S. McClure -- More sinister and painful -- The ear of the public -- A momentous decision -- Epilogue.