McClure’s Magazine
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- In John D. Rockefeller
…was released in installments by McClure’s Magazine between 1902 and 1904.
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McClure, founder of McClure’s Magazine, hired her in 1894. The History of the Standard Oil Company, originally a serial that ran in McClure’s, is one of the most thorough accounts of the rise of a business monopoly and its use of unfair practices; her reporting contributed to the…
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- In John D. Rockefeller
history of
- magazine publishing
- In history of publishing: General periodicals
…Sidney McClure, who began publishing McClure’s Magazine in 1893, which he sold for 15 cents an issue instead of the usual 25 or 35 cents. John Brisben Walker, who was building up Cosmopolitan (founded 1886) after acquiring it in 1889, cut his price to 12 1/2 cents, and in October…
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- In history of publishing: General periodicals
- muckrakers
role of
- Adams
- In Samuel Hopkins Adams
…capacities with McClure’s syndicate and McClure’s Magazine.
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- In Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Cather
- In Willa Cather
…was appointed managing editor of McClure’s, the New York muckraking monthly. After building up its declining circulation, she left in 1912 to devote herself wholly to writing novels.
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…appointment as managing editor of McClure’s Magazine, a New York monthly.
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- In Willa Cather
- Steffens
- In Lincoln Steffens
…after becoming managing editor of McClure’s Magazine, he began to publish the influential articles later collected as The Shame of the Cities (1904), a work closer to a documented sociological case study than to a sensational journalistic exposé. His later books included The Struggle for Self-Government (1906) and Upbuilders (1909).…
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…in a 1902 article for McClure’s magazine called “Tweed Days in St. Louis,” Lincoln Steffens and Claude H. Wetmore wrote:
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- In Lincoln Steffens