Foreword
Preface
INTRODUCTION: LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE ORIGINS OF MUCKRACKING
The Impact of Industrialism
The "Magazine Revolution"
The Making of the Journalists
Finding the Story: The Genesis of the Muckrakers' Investigative Reporting
Tarbell and "The Oil War of 1872"
Steffens and "The Shame of Minneapolis"
Baker and "The Right to Work"
THE DOCUMENTS
Lincoln Steffens, "The Shame of Minneapolis"
Ida M. Tarbell, "The Oil War of 1872"
Ray Stannard Baker, "The Right to Work"
S. S. McClure, Editorial: Concerning Three Articles in this Number of McClure's, and a Coincidence that May Set Us Thinking
CONCLUSION: MUCKRAKING AND ITS AFTERMATH
The Contemporary Response to Muckraking
The Demise of Muckraking
APPENDICES
A Brief Chronology of the Muckraking Years (1890–1912)
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index