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The Brass Check is a muckraking exposé of American journalism by Upton Sinclair published in 1919. It focuses mainly on newspapers and the Associated Press wire service, along with a few magazines. Other critiques of the press had appeared, but Read More..

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Description	The Brass Check is a muckraking exposé of American journalism by Upton Sinclair published in 1919. It focuses mainly on newspapers and the Associated Press wire service, along with a few magazines. Other critiques of the press had appeared, but Sinclair reached a wider audience with his personal fame and lively, provocative writing style.Sumpter, Randall S. "The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism." Journalism History. 29:2 (Summer 2003), 95. Among those critiqued was William Randolph Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widespread newspaper and magazine business.Sinclair called The Brass Check "the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written."The Brass Check, Chapter LXVI, p. 429. The University of Illinois Press released a new edition of the book in 2003, which contains a preface by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott. The text is also freely available on the Internet, as Sinclair opted not to copyright the text in an effort to maximize its readership.For much of Sinclair's career he was known as a "two book author": for writing The Jungle and The Brass Check.McChesney, Robert W. and Scott, Ben. "Upton Sinclair and the contradictions of capitalist journalism." Monthly Review 54.1 (May 2002), 1-14. Sinclair organized ten printings of The Brass Check in its first decade and sold over 150,000 copies.
Description	The Brass Check is a muckraking exposé of American journalism by Upton Sinclair published in 1919. It focuses mainly on newspapers and the Associated Press wire service, along with a few magazines. Other critiques of the press had appeared, but Sinclair reached a wider audience with his personal fame and lively, provocative writing style.Sumpter, Randall S. "The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism." Journalism History. 29:2 (Summer 2003), 95. Among those critiqued was William Randolph Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widespread newspaper and magazine business.Sinclair called The Brass Check "the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written."The Brass Check, Chapter LXVI, p. 429. The University of Illinois Press released a new edition of the book in 2003, which contains a preface by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott. The text is also freely available on the Internet, as Sinclair opted not to copyright the text in an effort to maximize its readership.For much of Sinclair's career he was known as a "two book author": for writing The Jungle and The Brass Check.McChesney, Robert W. and Scott, Ben. "Upton Sinclair and the contradictions of capitalist journalism." Monthly Review 54.1 (May 2002), 1-14. Sinclair organized ten printings of The Brass Check in its first decade and sold over 150,000 copies.

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Name	The Brass POP
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Authors	Upton Sinclair
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Genre	Sociology , Muckraking
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Publisher	Self (Pasadena, California)
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Pub_date	1919
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