LEADER 04576nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910787525803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0375-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203752 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418294 035 $a(OCoLC)859160906 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748606 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001054023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11674628 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001054023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11125654 035 $a(PQKB)11466752 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26738 035 $a(DE-B1597)449217 035 $a(OCoLC)979622737 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748606 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442174 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418294 100 $a20130903d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExposes and excess$b[electronic resource] $emuckraking in America, 1900/2000 /$fCecelia Tichi 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 0 $aPersonal Takes 225 0$aPersonal takes 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51124-1 311 $a0-8122-1926-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. From The jungle to Fast Food Nation --$tChapter 2. Bulked Up and Hollowed Out --$tChapter 3. Muckrakers c. 1900 --$tChapter 4. Muckrakers c. 2000 --$tEpilogue. Tipping Point, or the Long Goodbye? --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880's to the mass layoffs of the 1990's, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900's, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them-became bestsellers and prizewinners a hundred years ago; today, Cecelia Tichi notes, they have found their worthy successors in writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Schlosser, and Naomi Klein. In Exposés and Excess Tichi explores the two Gilded Ages through the lens of their muckrakers. Drawing from her considerable and wide-ranging work in American studies, Tichi details how the writers of the first muckraking generation used fact-based narratives in magazines such as McClure's to rouse the U.S. public to civic action in an era of unbridled industrial capitalism and fear of the immigrant "dangerous classes." Offering a damning cultural analysis of the new Gilded Age, Tichi depicts a booming, insecure, fortress America of bulked-up baby strollers, McMansion housing, and an obsession with money-as-lifeline in an era of deregulation, yawning income gaps, and idolatry of the market and its rock-star CEOs. No one has captured this period of corrosive boom more acutely than the group of nonfiction writers who burst on the scene in the late 1990's with their exposés of the fast-food industry, the world of low-wage work, inadequate health care, corporate branding, and the multibillion-dollar prison industry. And nowhere have these authors-Ehrenreich, Schlosser, Klein, Laurie Garrett, and Joseph Hallinan-revealed more about their emergence as writers and the connections between journalism and literary narrative than in the rich and insightful interviews that round out the book. With passion and wit, Exposés and Excess brings a literary genre up to date at a moment when America has gone back to the future. 606 $aJournalism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSocial problems$xPress coverage$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aJournalism$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial problems$xPress coverage 676 $a302.230973 700 $aTichi$b Cecelia$f1942-$0595969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787525803321 996 $aExposes and excess$93697147 997 $aUNINA