reformer-writers ranged far and wide to lay bare the muck on the back of
American society.
- In 1902, Lincoln Steffens launched a series of articles in McClure’s entitled “The Shame of
the Cities,” in which he unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and the
government.
2. Ida M. Tarbell launched a devastating exposé against Standard Oil and its ruthlessness.
iii. These writers exposed the mean trust, the “money trust,” the railroad barons, and the corrupt
amassing of American fortunes…
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