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- Book Title
- Exposés and Excess
- Publication Name
- Exposés and Excess : Muckraking in America, 1900-2000
- Title
- Exposés and Excess
- Subtitle
- Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0812219260
- EAN
- 9780812219265
- ISBN
- 9780812219265
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 27/04/2005
- Release Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Personal Takes Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 14.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages--one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century--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--Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them--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. In Expos s and Excess 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-based narratives in magazines such as McClure's to rouse the U.S. public to civic action in an era of unbridled industrial capitalism and fear of the immigrant "dangerous classes." Offering a damning cultural analysis of the new Gilded Age, Tichi depicts a booming, insecure, fortress America of bulked-up baby strollers, McMansion housing, and an obsession with money-as-lifeline in an era of deregulation, yawning income gaps, and idolatry of the market and its rock-star CEOs. No one has captured this period of corrosive boom more acutely than the group of nonfiction writers who burst on the scene in the late 1990s with their expos s of the fast-food industry, the world of low-wage work, inadequate health care, corporate branding, and the multibillion-dollar prison industry. And nowhere have these authors--Ehrenreich, Schlosser, Klein, Laurie Garrett, and Joseph Hallinan--revealed more about their emergence as writers and the connections between journalism and literary narrative than in the rich and insightful interviews that round out the book. With passion and wit, Expos s and Excess brings a literary genre up to date at a moment when America has gone back to the future.
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University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812219260
ISBN-13
9780812219265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48425483
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Exposés and Excess : Muckraking in America, 1900-2000
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Series
Personal Takes Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn4888.S6t53 2004
Reviews
Intriguing. . . . Tichi has a firm grasp on contemporary culture in the very early and late 1900s. . . . As much contemporary culture and sociology as journalism., "Tichi shows us the art of muckraking narrative, and how artful it must be. She shows us, too, the state we are in as a society. The cumulative evidence constitutes a devastating critique of where we are as a culture, where we are in the world, and where we are going. Tichi writes with exuberance, but if we take her seriously, this is a profoundly troubling book."-Miles Orvell, Temple University, "Rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century."-Daniel Horowitz, Smith College, "Tichi makes it clear that she sometimes becomes depressed at the corruption and insensitivity raining down from the top of U.S. society, including the White House, and would like to see more journalists exposing problems. But despite legitimate reasons for concern, her book is largely an affirmation of contemporary investigative journalism. And that's good news."- Christian Science Monitor, "Intriguing. . . . Tichi has a firm grasp on contemporary culture in the very early and late 1900s. . . . As much contemporary culture and sociology as journalism."-- Choice, "Tichi makes it clear that she sometimes becomes depressed at the corruption and insensitivity raining down from the top of U.S. society, including the White House, and would like to see more journalists exposing problems. But despite legitimate reasons for concern, her book is largely an affirmation of contemporary investigative journalism. And that's good news."--Christian Science Monitor, "Tichi provides rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century, plus a stunning cultural analysis of the booming, insecure world in the U.S., c. 1980-2000. She shows what it means to think of noncanonical texts in multiple ways, including those shaped by literary theory. Finally, she offers wonderful insights into the process by which journalists emerge as writers, and into the problematic differences between journalism and literature."--Daniel Horowitz, Smith College, "Rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century."--Daniel Horowitz, Smith College, Tichi provides rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century, plus a stunning cultural analysis of the booming, insecure world in the U.S., c. 1980-2000. She shows what it means to think of noncanonical texts in multiple ways, including those shaped by literary theory. Finally, she offers wonderful insights into the process by which journalists emerge as writers, and into the problematic differences between journalism and literature., Tichi makes it clear that she sometimes becomes depressed at the corruption and insensitivity raining down from the top of U.S. society, including the White House, and would like to see more journalists exposing problems. But despite legitimate reasons for concern, her book is largely an affirmation of contemporary investigative journalism. And that's good news., Tichi shows us the art of muckraking narrative, and how artful it must be. She shows us, too, the state we are in as a society. The cumulative evidence constitutes a devastating critique of where we are as a culture, where we are in the world, and where we are going. Tichi writes with exuberance, but if we take her seriously, this is a profoundly troubling book., "Tichi shows us the art of muckraking narrative, and how artful it must be. She shows us, too, the state we are in as a society. The cumulative evidence constitutes a devastating critique of where we are as a culture, where we are in the world, and where we are going. Tichi writes with exuberance, but if we take her seriously, this is a profoundly troubling book."--Miles Orvell, Temple University, Intriguing....Tichi has a firm grasp on contemporary culture in the very early and late 1900s....As much contemporary culture and sociology as journalism., "Tichi provides rich and nuanced readings of works by muckrakers at both ends of the twentieth century, plus a stunning cultural analysis of the booming, insecure world in the U.S., c. 1980-2000. She shows what it means to think of noncanonical texts in multiple ways, including those shaped by literary theory. Finally, she offers wonderful insights into the process by which journalists emerge as writers, and into the problematic differences between journalism and literature."-Daniel Horowitz, Smith College, "Intriguing. . . . Tichi has a firm grasp on contemporary culture in the very early and late 1900s. . . . As much contemporary culture and sociology as journalism."--Choice, "Intriguing. . . . Tichi has a firm grasp on contemporary culture in the very early and late 1900s. . . . As much contemporary culture and sociology as journalism."- Choice, "Tichi makes it clear that she sometimes becomes depressed at the corruption and insensitivity raining down from the top of U.S. society, including the White House, and would like to see more journalists exposing problems. But despite legitimate reasons for concern, her book is largely an affirmation of contemporary investigative journalism. And that's good news."-- Christian Science Monitor
Table of Content
Chapter 1. From The Jungle to Fast Food Nation: American Deja Vu Chapter 2. Bulked Up, Hollowed Out: Looking Backward, Looking Forward Chapter 3. Muckrakers c. 1900: Civic Passions, "Righteous Indignation" Chapter 4. Muckrakers c. 2000 --Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed:On (Not) Getting By in America --Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal --Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies --Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health --Joseph T. Hallinan, Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation Epilogue: Tipping Point, or the Long Goodbye? Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2004
Topic
Media Studies, Sociology / General, American / General
Lccn
2003-056363
Intended Audience
College Audience
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
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