Moment of the Muckraker

At the beginning of the 20th century, the muckraker tradition announced its arrival in the United States. Activists, writers, journalists, woolly-headed but well-meaning socialists, utopians: the muckrakers were in some senses a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age, a period that ended in the 1890s and gave America both enormous economic growth as well as unprecedented corruption in public institutions and public life.

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