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- 160 pages
- More than 65 black-and-white photos and maps
- Reinforced library binding
- 6" x 9"
- Bibliography
- Index
- Grades 5 and up
- ISBN: 1-881508-39-0
- $19.95
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While none of these people are painted as saints, . . . their enthusiastic
sharing of their views come across as significant contributions to 19th-
and 20th-century press culture.
School Library Journal
These journalists not only reported the news of their day, but their
articles also influenced the course of events. Featured are abolitionist
editor Elijah Lovejoy; Horace Greeley, whose editorial influenced
Abraham Lincoln to end slavery; Canadian publisher George Brown;
William Randolph Hearst, who propelled the U.S. into war with Spain
in 1898; investigative journalist Ida Tarbell; British publisher
Alfred Harmsworth; Edward R. Murrow, who confronted Senator
Joseph McCarthy; and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the
reporters who exposed the Watergate scandal.
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