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  2. Muckraker - Wikipedia

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    Muckraker David Graham Philips believed that the tag of muckraker brought about the end of the movement as it was easier to group and attack the journalists. [ 25 ] The term eventually came to be used in reference to investigative journalists who reported about and exposed such issues as crime, fraud, waste, public health and safety, graft, and ...

  3. Upton Sinclair - Wikipedia

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    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

  4. Jack Anderson (columnist) - Wikipedia

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    Confessions of a Muckraker, with James Boyd (1979) Alice in Blunderland, with John Kidner (1983) Fiasco, with James Boyd (1983) Inside the NRA: Armed and Dangerous (1996) Washington Money-Go-Round (1997) Peace, War and Politics: An Eyewitness Account, with Daryl Gibson (1999) Fiction. The Cambodia File, with Bill Pronzini (1983) Control (1989 ...

  5. S. S. McClure - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Sidney McClure (February 17, 1857 – March 21, 1949) was an American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.He co-founded and ran McClure's Magazine from 1893 to 1911, which ran numerous exposées of wrongdoing in business and politics, such as those written by Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens.

  6. Henry Demarest Lloyd - Wikipedia

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    Henry Demarest Lloyd (May 1, 1847 – September 28, 1903) was an American journalist and political activist who was a prominent muckraker during the Progressive Era. He is best known for his exposés of Standard Oil which were written before Ida Tarbell 's series for McClure's on the same topic.

  7. The Brass Check - Wikipedia

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    The book is one of the "Dead Hand" series: six books Sinclair wrote on American institutions.The series also includes The Profits of Religion, The Goose-step (higher education), The Goslings (elementary and high school education), Mammonart (great literature, art and music) and Money Writes!

  8. Ida Tarbell - Wikipedia

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    Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer.She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism.

  9. Paul Y. Anderson - Wikipedia

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    Paul Y. Anderson (August 29, 1893 – December 6, 1938) was an American journalist.He was a pioneering muckraker and played a role in exposing the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s.