—Upton Sinclair, on the public reaction to his 1906 novel The Jungle. Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell were the best-known of the so-called muckrakers, crusading journalists active from about 1890 to 1910 (and in some cases, many years longer) who helped to bring about a number of governmental reforms. More @Wikipedia
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