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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.
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.
Robert Kochersberger has written and lectured extensively on the muckraking era in journalism, focusing on Ida Tarbell. [1] Having grown up in Chautauqua County, New York, where Tarbell’s journalism career began, Kochersberger held a particular interest in her. [4] In 1994, he published More Than A Muckraker: Ida Tarbell’s Lifetime in ...
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Reviews of Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker : . What makes this portrait of a muckraker particularly interesting is Brady's attempt to understand how Tarbell, a symbol of independence and success to her generation of women, not only shunned involvement in feminist causes, but actively sought to dissuade women from pursuing careers outside the home...
[7] [8] The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered to be the official beginning of muckraking journalism, [9] although the muckrakers would get their label later. Ida M. Tarbell ("The History of Standard Oil"), Lincoln Steffens ("The Shame of the Cities") and Ray Stannard Baker ("The Right to Work"), simultaneously published famous works ...
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.
Mama’s in the slammer but she’s running the show in “Ida Red,” a proficiently made crime family drama that sees director John Swab return to his Oklahoma roots. Consciously seeking to ...