title: Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books)
author: Bruce Shapiro
description: Arriving shortly after the New York Times's fall from grace at the hands of a fraudulent staff reporter, this collection of America's best investigative reporting may redeem not only that paper but the entire profession of journalism. Yale journalism professor Shapiro explains he sought to fill a void in the textbook industry; he "wanted material to illustrate essential reporting and narrative techniques... that would give some sense of the historical evolution of investigative journalism." He offers short introductions for each selection, elucidating the pieces' historical significance and transforming what could be a dry primer into an enjoyable compilation for general readers or history buffs. It includes the obvious choices: the Times's expos of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall corruption in the 1870s as well as its revelation of the Pentagon Papers a century later; the exposure of lynching by Ida B. Wells, a former slave turned advocate of blacks' and women's rights; and the work of legendary muckrakers from Lincoln Steffens to Woodward and Bernstein. But the book's definition of investigative reportage reaches farther than other collections of its kind (and, indeed, there aren't many), containing a sort of slave narrative in "History of the Amistad Captives," a factual novel by Herman Melville, and Ralph Nader's groundbreaking challenge to the auto industry. Wells begins her 1895 account as an appeal "to the sober sense of the American people" to refute the status quo, and it is essentially this spirit that motivates the volume's other journalists. It's been said that journalism is the first draft of history-if so, then this is a history of the writing of history. <br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: WASHINGTON
  EXPOSE
  By Jack Anderson
  Public Affairs
  Press, Washington, D.C.
  
  .&
  J7
  FOR MY WIFE OLIVIA
  Published by Public Affairs Press
  419 New Jersey Avenue,
  S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003
  Copyright, 1967, by Jack Anderson
  Printed in the United States of America
  Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-14902
  
  PREFACE
  First let me warn that I am no pundit.
  I do not observe
  the Washington scene from Olympian heights.
  I am neither
  historian nor scholar.
  I like to think
  I am an investigative
  reporter.
  I poke into the shadows of government, searching
  with a small light for the facts that officials would prefer to
  keep in the dark.
  I have a tendency to stray from orthodox
  news trails, and I blunder into many dead ends.
  But while
  others are occupied with the imposing view out front, I catch
  an occasional glimpse behind the scenes.
  Investigative
  reporting
  isn't,
  of
  course,
  the
  best way
  to
  make friends.
  I have been booed, sued, accused, assaulted,
  denounced,
  blackballed,
  and
  investigated.
  I
  have
  be