About this title: The Muck-Rakers were a group of progressive journalists based around New York journals such as "McLure's Magazine" who, in the first decade of the 20th century, decided to take on the large trusts and the might of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller. Unlike the anti-globalization campaigners today, they were not against big business as such, but were opposed to the form big business was taking and the impact it was having on American life and society. Their arguments had powerful and lasting effects on the legal structure of American business and on the shape of the journalistic profession. ...
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Description: Like New. Thoemmes Press. Bristol, 2002. Library Binding. 8vo. Book is As New. Reprinted from the editions of 1904 (New York), 1908 (New York), and 1920 (Garden City) respectively. Vols. 1 & 2: The History of the Standard Oil Company (Tarbell); xv, xix & 406, xiii & 409 pp. Vol. 3: Lawless Wealth (Russell), vii & 288 pp. Vol. 4: The New Industrial Unrest (Baker), vi & 231 pp. In yellow library binding with gilt title over red label. read more
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