The pen is mightier : the muckraking life of Charles Edward Russell / Robert Miraldi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miraldi, Robert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941.

Russell, Charles Edward.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2003]

Summary:

The first biography of muckraker and social reformer Charles Edward Russell, who used his bold investigative reporting technique to uncover some of the country's biggest scandals at the turn of the 20th century.

Contents:

Prologue: More than a Muckraker ix

Chapter 1 The Johnstown Flood: "Almost impossible to describe" 1

Chapter 2 The Pious and the Powerful 15

Chapter 3 Haymarket Square to Lizzie Borden 35

Chapter 4 Crusading against the Bosses 55

Chapter 5 The Best Job at the World 75

Chapter 6 Hearst, Yellow Journalism, Chicago 87

Chapter 7 Exposing the World's Greatest Trust 105

Chapter 8 "Soldier for the Common Good" 121

Chapter 9 The Shame of the World's Richest Church 135

Chapter 10 Evil Prisons, Race Riots, Justice Denied 151

Chapter 11 Out from Behind the Pen 173

Chapter 12 Grappling with the Octopus 187

Chapter 13 The Dove Becomes a Hawk 205

Chapter 14 The Amateur Diplomat 219

Chapter 15 At War with His Party

and Germany 231

Chapter 16 Propagandist in Russia 245

Epilogue: New Causes in the Final Years 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-321) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0312292929

OCLC:

51108569