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=Plot= My book has a very simple plot because it simply lists off famous muckrakers. First there is Ida Mea Tarbell who revealed things about the Standard Oil Company and J D Rockefeller. Second the book introduces you to Lincoln Steffens who wrote about political corruption in many of the United States’ cities. Next Upton Sinclair is described as the person who made everyone’s life better by exposing the way meat was processed. Then you get to know who Margaret Sanger was and about how she fought for birth control. Then George Seldes is introduced and you learn how he always told you what the press wouldn’t. Next is John Steinbeck who revealed the sad lives the poor had to live through. Then you meet J William Fulbright who was a politician who revealed things about the government. Rachel Carson is the next one to be introduced and she fought for the nature she loved because of the pesticides killing it. Then you introduced to I F Stone, who also told you what the press wouldn’t. Then you meet Edward R Murrow who revealed things about the intimidating Senator McCarthy. Jessica Mitford is the next muckraker because of all she revealed about the funeral industry and their outrageous prices. Next you meet Betty Friedan who discovered why some women were so discontent with living as a housewife. The next person, who fought against white people with his fellow blacks, was called Malcolm X. Michael Harrington is next to be introduced as another person to expose what he call another America, or the poor people. Then you meet Paul Brodeur who revealed the kind of unhealthy lives some people had to live in order to get food on the table. Another Paul is introduced after that, Paul Ehrlich, who tied to protect nature by telling people there were going to be too many humans on earth. Ralph Nader is next as he attacked and revealed things about General Motors faulty cars. Then you meet Seymour Hersh who exposed things about the military. Next are two people who go together. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein worked together on the Watergate case that ended up being the reason for President Nixon’s resignation. Last but not least is Frances Moore Lappé, who changed the way people thought about the world hunger problem. Altogether my book was chocked full of information on these twenty muckrakers.