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

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazineMcClure'sand 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 president was Theodore Roosevelt-and the publication that provoked ...