Binding: Hardcover
Description: Finalist FOR THE Sperber Prize FOR Journalism Biography A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine Mc Clure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm as well as a timely full - throated defense of investigative journalism in America The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as muckrakers and forces for evil. The year was 1906, the president was Theodore Roosevelt and the publication that provoked his fury was Mc Clure's magazine. One of the most influential magazines in American history Mc Clure's drew over 400,000 readers and published the groundbreaking stories that defined the Gilded Age including the investigation of Standard Oil that toppled the Rockefeller monopoly. Driving this revolutionary publication were two improbable newcomers united by single - minded ambition. S. S. Mc Clure was an Irish immigrant who despite bouts of mania overthrew his impoverished upbringing and bent the New York media world to his will. His steadying hand and star reporter was Ida Tarbell a woman who defied gender expectations and became a notoriously fearless journalist. Through Mc Clure's they cemented investigative journalism's crucial role in democracy and introduced Americans to the voices of Willa Cather Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph Conrad and many others. Tracing Mc Clure's from its meteoric rise to its spectacularly swift and dramatic combustion Citizen Reporters is a thrillingly told deeply researched biography of a powerhouse magazine that forever changed American life. It's also a timely case study that demonstrates the crucial importance of journalists who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Title: Citizen Reporters S. S. Mcclure Ida Tarbell And The Magazine That Rewrote America
Author(s): Gorton Stephanie
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062796646
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/18/2020