| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell. By Robert Miraldi. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. xvi, 328 pp. $35.00,ISBN 0-312-29292-9.)
This well-done biography of Charles Edward Russell by Robert Miraldi gives students of journalism, muckraking, the Progressive movement, socialism, and politics a feast of insights and information into one of the most fascinating figures in American nonfiction writing.	1
The book begins twenty-nine years into Russell's life, when news broke that would "change Russell's standing as a journalist, test his mettle to survive and begin to shape his view of the profession on which he would make his mark over the next four decades" (p. 1). The event was the 1889 Johnstown flood, and its grim horror taught Russell both social and journalistic lessons that would stick with him for a long time.	2
But the long life of Russell—lasting another fifty-one years—almost boggles the imagination of those who do not know of him. He started modestly enough in Davenport, Iowa, in a newspaper family but went on to be close to or actually part of an incredible number of important and widely known national and international figures and events.	. . .

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