Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism

by Ann Bausum
Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism
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16 ratings, 3.50 average rating, 8 reviews (more data...)
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September 11th 2007 by National Geographic Children's Books

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Hardcover, 112 pages

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1426301375    (isbn13: 9781426301377)

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Hold the presses! Here's the sensational story of the birth of investigative journalism in America. At the turn of the 20th century, news reporters an...more




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Stefanie
04/20/08
Stefanie rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: informational-books
recommends it for: Grades 3-6, school project
Muckrakers is part of a series of National Geographic books for children. The book gives a nice overview of the history of muckraking, and includes numerous photographs with detailed captions. However, I kept wishing the author would delve further into the subject, especially since there are many redundancies throughout the book. Despite these flaws, Muckrakers would be effective for a student doing basic research for a school project. Highlights include features such as a timeline, short bi...more
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Margaret
12/27/08
Margaret rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in December, 2008
I liked this book. Informative but very superficial. More like a historical overview of the Muckrakers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Made me want to learn more about Sinclair, Tarbell, and others. I found the women Muckrakers to be inspiring...ahead of their time.
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Teresa
11/27/07
Teresa rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in May, 2008
recommends it for: fifth grade and up
A fine introduction to investigative journalism as a genre/profession. I was left wanting more information about the people, with the wish that the time-line in the back had been more filled out by the actual book.

Here's a sidebar from the book: a verse published in the New York Evening Post in response to Sinclair's The Jungle:

Mary had a little lamb and when she saw it sicken, she shipped it off to Packingtown, and now it's labeled chicken.

Sinclair was disapp...more
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Paige
12/08/08
Paige rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in December, 2008
recommended to Paige by: CLAU
I have always admired those who research and find stories. Like most things, there is a good side and and bad side to the press. I enjoyed the back stories, but was not riveted.
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Kari
04/23/08
Kari rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: non-fiction
Read in April, 2008
Through the stories of Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens, ground-breaking investigative journalism takes on Standard Oil, Meat Packers and Political Corruption. Teddy Roosevelt called them Muckrakers, out of frustration. The book closes with the achievements of Edward R. Murrow, Rachel Carson, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and Seymour Hersh.
The book encapsulates the struggle, stigma and accomplishments of the field.
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Nomi
04/03/08
Nomi rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: childrens, nonfiction
Read in April, 2008
An excellent window into the origins of invesigative journalism, before the media lost its soul. Tarbell, Sinclair, and Steffens were journalists with a social conscious who's uncovering of various scandals(Chicago meatpacking industry, Standard Oil monopoly, corruption in state/city government) and injustices actually effected political change.
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Cecilia
05/09/08
Cecilia rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in May, 2008
I am reading this for a school project. It is very interesting, especially the chapter about Upton Sinclair, his book, The Jungle, and meatpackers (rather gory, though). I would recommend this book to 4th+ graders interested in muckrakers and 20th century journalism.
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fairrosa
10/06/07
fairrosa rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: 6-8grade, nonfiction
Read in October, 2007
For a highly tantalizing and potentially thrilling subject, the book manages to be quite tedious and not very inspiring.
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Bonnie Bess
05/11/09
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01/09/09
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