The Muckrakers

The investigative writers who exposed corruption and cruelty — Sinclair’s stockyards, Riis’s slums, and the reporting that forced reform.

Journalism that shamed a nation

In this collection

• The Wrong Twin
• American Painting and its Tradition
• Eli's Education
• Ardelia in Arcady
• Simon's Papa
• The Hidden Wound
• The Hobo and the Fairy
• The Broken-Down Squatter
• The Marquis and Miss Sally
• The Revel
• The Three Cities, Rome Volume II
• On a Lazy Idle Boy
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain
• His Country-After All

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