Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism cover

Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism

Author: Bausum, Ann

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 9.2
Points 3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 14492
Points per Word 0.000207
Page Count 112
Points per Page 0.026786

Description

This is the story of the birth of investigative journalism in America. At the turn of the 20th century, news reporters and monthly magazines collaborated to create a new kind of journalism, in-depth exposés of corporate, labor, and political corruption.