| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900–2000. By Cecelia Tichi. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 234 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8122-3763-3.)
Ever since the 1930s when Louis Filler and C. C. Regier wrote the first chronicles of the Progressive Era investigative reporters known as muckrakers, a steady stream of scholarship has ensued. Lately, the interest has spiked again. New biographies of Samuel Hopkins Adams and Charles Edward Russell have come out. A 1961 anthology has been reprinted, and three new anthologies of the muckrakers' work have appeared, as has an essay collection.	1
Add now Cecelia Tichi's Exposés and Excess, a slim volume that seems more a collection of essays than a coherent volume. Tichi does offer important insights into writing and American culture, however. This is especially so when she tears through the 1990s in America when supersized desires and corporate excesses melded into a new Gilded Age, ripening conditions for new muckraking. But it is difficult to say whether her insights and personal musings can hold together this book that sets out to compare narrative forms of writing and to underline some of the conditions that have led to journalistic exposé.	. . .

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