Forerunners of Revolution: Muckrakers and the American Social Conscience [Paperback]

Walter M. Brasch (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 081917968X | ISBN-13: 978-0819179685 | Publication Date: August 20, 1990

This book examines social investigative reporting in American history, focusing on the years 1890-1915.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...Brasch concludes by making an insightful and intriguing distinction between muckraking and investigative reporting.>>>> (Journalism Quarterly )

...the book not only highlights the journalist's role in America, but also analyses the evolution of the press and society from the nation's emergence to the present.>>>> (Media Development )

Brasch's treatment blends investigative reporting, research, and analysis to present a scholarly yet lively review of how the muckrakers prompted changes in social awareness at the turn of the century....>>>> (The Midwest Book Review )

It is Brasch's theory that the 'muckraker' investigative journalism light was never extinguished and that muckraking, despite an eclipse in the 'me-too' 1980s, is very much alive.>>>> (Editor & Publisher )

It is Brasch's theory that the 'muckraker' investigative journalism light was never extinguished and that muckraking, despite an eclipse in the 'me-too' 1980s, is very much alive. (Editor & Publisher )

...Brasch concludes by making an insightful and intriguing distinction between muckraking and investigative reporting. (Journalism Quarterly )

...the book not only highlights the journalist's role in America, but also analyses the evolution of the press and society from the nation's emergence to the present. (Media Development )

Brasch's treatment blends investigative reporting, research, and analysis to present a scholarly yet lively review of how the muckrakers prompted changes in social awareness at the turn of the century.... (The Midwest Book Review )

About the Author

Walter M. Brasch is Professor of Journalism at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of The Press and the State: Sociohistorical and Contemporary Interpretations (UPA, 1986).

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (August 20, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081917968X
• ISBN-13: 978-0819179685
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,645,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Walter Brasch: Author, national award-winning syndicated newspaper columnist, university professor. A writer who looks at society and tries to understand, then analyze and explain its many complex parts as they relate to each other to help people better understand their own lives and what's both necessary and important to their lives.

Find more about me at: www.facebook.com/walterbrasch, www.walterbrasch.com, walterbrasch.blogspot.com

. . . Latest book: BEFORE THE FIRST SNOW: Stories From the Revolution. Its a journalistic novel about the counterculture between 1960s and 1991.

Rosemary Brasch: labor studies professional; Red Cross disaster volunteer (family services)
Parents of two sons, several pets.