| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2 | The History Cooperative

Robert Miraldi. The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xiii, 328. $32.50.
Robert Miraldi has filled a gap in the historical literature of the muckraking era (circa 1900–1914) in American journalism history with his brisk-paced, fact-filled narrative of the life of Charles Edward Russell, an important reporter and editor of several of the period's leading reform-minded metropolitan newspapers and magazines. Miraldi seeks to set Russell in his rightful place among the pantheon of great reform journalists that included contemporaries and acquaintances Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and David Graham Phillips.	1
Very early in the volume, Miraldi states that Russell was as recognized in his time as any of the aforementioned muckrakers for his breadth of work, his elegant style, and the strength of his reform convictions. What Russell lacked, which Miraldi feels led to his being passed over by historians of muckraking, was a "signature" piece of muckraking journalism of the type published by his better-remembered peers, such as Steffens's Shame of the Cities (1902), Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company (1902), Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), and Phillips's "Treason of the Senate" (1906).	. . .

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