Expos?s and Excess Muckraking in America, 19 / 2【電子書籍】[ Cecelia Tichi ]

＜p＞From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Agesーone in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth centuryーmirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakersーUpton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among themーbecame bestsellers and prizewinners a hundred years ago; today, Cecelia Tichi notes, they have found their worthy successors in writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Schlosser, and Naomi Klein.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Expos?s and Excess＜/em＞ Tichi explores the two Gilded Ages through the lens of their muckrakers. Drawing from her considerable and wide-ranging work in American studies, Tichi details how the writers of the first muckraking generation used fact-b．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る