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Shaking the foundations, 200 years of investigative journalism in America, edited by Bruce Shapiro

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Shaking the foundations

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edited by Bruce Shapiro

200 years of investigative journalism in America

Offers a history of american social reform and investigative journalism. Includes Ida B. Wells, Nellie Bly, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, I.F. Stone, Jack Anderson, Ralph Nader, Woodward and Bernstein, Henry Adams, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, and others

Foreword / Pete Hamill -- Introduction: striking through the mask / Bruce Shapiro -- "A calm observer" from the Philadelphia Aurora and g'eneral Advertiser (1975) / Benjamin Franklin Bache -- from A history of the Amistad captives (1840) / John Barber -- "Flogging through the fleet" from White-Jacket (1850) / Herman Melville -- from Chapters of Erie (1872) / Henry Adams -- "More ring villainy: gigantic frauds in the rental of armories" (1871) / The New York Times -- "The new slave trade" from John Swinton's paper (1884) / John Swinton -- "Choking and beating patients" from Ten days in a madhouse (1887) / Nellie Bly -- "Pauperism in the tenements" from How the other half lives (1890) / Jacob Riis -- "Lynching of innocent men (lynched on account of relationship)" from A red record (1897) / Ida B. Wells"The shame of Minneapolis: the rescue and redemption of a city that was sold out" form McClure's Magazine (1903) / Lincoln Steffens -- "The oil war of 1872" from The history of Standard Oil (1903) / Ida Tarbell -- "The condemned-meat industry: a reply to Mr. J. Ogden armour" from Everybody's Magazine (1908) / Upton Sinclair -- "Cry of a broken people: a story of injustice and cruelty that is as terrible as it is true" from Good Housekeeping (1929) / Vera Connolly -- "The man who stayed too long" from Washington Merry-Go-Round (1931 / Drew Pearson -- "The rise of farm fascism" from Factories in the Field (1939) / Carey McWilliams -- "The suppressed tobacco story" from In Fact (1941) / George Seldes -- "Hitler gets millions for war chest through links with American firms" from PM (1941) / Lowell L. Leake and PM -- "The blast in Centralia no. 5: a mine disaster no one stopped" from Harper's Magazine (1948) / John Bartlow Martin"The Bronx slave market" parts I, II, and III from the New York Compass (1950) / Marvel Cooke -- "The Klavaliers ride to a fall" from The Klan unmasked (1954) / Stetson Kennedy -- from "The big ones get away" from The Nation (1958) / Fred J. Cook -- "The safe car you can't buy," from The Nation (1959) / Ralph Nader -- from "Anatomy of a hate group" from The un-Americans (1962) / Frank Donner -- "And no birds sing" from Silent Spring (1962) / Rachel Carson -- "All we really know is that we fired the first shots" from I.F. Stone's Weekly (1968) / I.F. Stone -- "The university on the make" from Ramparts (1966) / Robert Scheer, Warren Hinckle, and Sol Stern -- "The My Lai massacre" from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1969) / Seymour Hersh -- "Vast review of war took a year" from the New York Times (1971) / Neil Sheehan and Hedrick Smith"Secret memo bares Mitchell-ITT move," "Kleindienst accused in ITT case," and "Contradictions cited in ITT case" from the Washington Post (1972) -- "Spy funds linked to GOP aides" and "Mitchell controlled secret GOP fund" from the Washington Post (1972) / Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- "The prison business" from Kind and usual punishment (1973) / Jessica Mitford -- "Corporate crime of the century" from Mother Jones (1979) / Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Stephen Minkin -- "Steinman" from Vicious circles: the mafia and the marketplace (1979) / Jonathan Kwitny -- "Villains afoot" from Cry of the People (1980) / Penny Lernoux -- "Behind the death squads" from The progressive (1984) / Allan Nairn -- "Death camp horrors" from Newsday (1993) / Roy Gutman -- "Death row justice derailed" from Chicago Tribune (1999) / Kenneth Armstrong and Steve Mills -- "These dark satanic mills" from One world, ready or not (1997) / William Greider