Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America

FINALIST FOR THE SPERBER PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM – BIOGRAPHY

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America

The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as “muckrakers” and “forces for evil.” The year was 1906, the presiden...