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Muckrakers

Muckrakers

MUCKRAKERS

Edd Applegate

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2008
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780810861084
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Professor Edd Applegate profiles the men and women who either wrote muckraking journalism or edited publications that featured muckraking articles. Some of the most important figures of journalism are here, including Nellie Bly, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, George Kennan, Jack London, Frank Norris, Rachel Carson, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone.

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