Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages--one in the early 1900s, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237633
• ISBN13: 9780812237634
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Best tell all book of the year

Nashville City Paper BookClub Column - May 27, 2004Local author and Vanderbilt professor Cecelia Tichi has written the juicy tell-all Exposes and Excess (Penn). Tichi dishes the dirt on those who made it big and rich during the Gilded Age.Saralee Terry Woods is President of BookMan/BookWoman Books in Nashville, and Larry D. Woods is an attorney.