When was the muckraking era

Muckrakers From Ohio History Central. Jump to: navigation , search. McGerr, Michael. Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of the Cities. History of Standard Oil. Muckraking in the Gilded Age. American Literature DOI: Cassady argues against the characterization of the media as complacent in Gilded Age corruption, highlighting several significant pieces that skewered government and corporations of the era.

Media versus special interests. Dyck and colleagues studied voting patterns during the muckraker era and found that the reporting had a statistically significant effect on voting records in the house and Senate.

The work of these authors confirmed what many had taken as an article of faith and provides the most compelling statistical evidence of impact.

Filler, Louis. The muckrakers. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Written within living memory of the muckraking movement, this book has an enormous amount of context about contemporary politics and cultural life and how the muckrakers fit into the debates of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Also includes details on the response to their reporting. Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses the way in which President Teddy Roosevelt used the press to further his reform agenda and his relationship with muckraking reporters.

McKitrick, Eric L. Commentary July : 85— This review of an anthology of muckraking journalism, written by a noted historian, sums up much of the thinking of the muckraking era and puts it in the context of the United States after the Civil War.

A good period piece that considers motivations and the national mood in a way no longer seen. Miraldi, Robert, ed. The muckrakers: Evangelical crusaders. Westport, CT: Praeger. A collection of essays written by scholars about different aspects of the muckraking movement. Poitras, Marc, and Daniel Sutter. Advertiser pressure and control of the news: The decline of muckraking revisited. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Poitras and Sutter examine the decline in muckraking in the early 20th century as a possible case study of advertiser influence.

Regier, Cornelius C. The era of the muckrakers. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith. This book has a meandering old-fashioned feel and provides much context about tensions over income inequality and the rise of large trusts in the late 19th century.

This background information makes the book relevant in the early 21st century, particularly the sections on the pressure on professors who spoke out against the trusts and the ways in which local newspapers tried to build relationships with readers. Steffens, Lincoln. The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. New York: Harcourt, Brace. Steffens describes how he reported many of his stories and the reaction that followed. Tichi, Cecelia. Philadelphia: Univ. Based on a course taught by the author, this book is a collection of essays on US muckrakers in the 19th and 20th centuries, It also includes interviews with contemporary muckrakers, such as Barbara Ehrenreich who writes on labor and women and Laurie Garrett who is known for her reporting on health.

This is a selective look at the highlights of some muckraking writing. Patent medicine muckraking: Influences on American pharmacy, social reform, and foreign actors. Pharmacy in History The authors discuss the impact of muckrakers, such as Edward Bok whose coverage of patent medicines led to the Food and Drug Act.

Not only did the journalism on the subject of ineffective and dangerous medicine lead to new laws in the United States, the muckraking tactics were also used by journalists in the United Kingdom and in Europe. Wilson, Harold S.