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Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
Maybe someday
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63/100Critics
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Author:
Stephanie Gorton
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
February 18, 2020
A history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm.
What The Reviewers Say
... smart and engaging.
All great editors have an eye for talent. After reading Citizen Reporters, I’m convinced that McClure had the greatest eye of all time.
[Gorton] explores the clash and interplay of talents that created an entity greater than the sum of its parts, absorbed in an endeavor as important now as it was then: molding coherent narratives that help readers—surrounded by a cacophony of daily stories—grasp the changes they are living through..
In her finely sourced and lively first book, Gorton tells the complex, entwined stories of these two ardent innovators and their temperamental differences, symbiotic friendship, and reverberating achievements.
