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Ed. by Bruce Shapiro. Sept. 2003. 544p. Thunder's Mouth/Nation, paper, $15.95 (1-56025-433-5). 070.4.
This is the first anthology to collect 200 years of investigative journalism by a wide range of reporters, highlighting the long tradition of advocacy and reform Journalism. With samples of articles and essays, and excerpts from books and memoirs, Shapiro offers the reader a history of American social reform and investigative journalism. Among the reporters are Ida B. Wells, Nellie Bly, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, I. F. Stone, Jack Anderson, Ralph Nader, Woodward and Bernstein, and others. The searing topics include slave mutiny, lynching, child labor abuses, ...