 Russell as drawn by Art Ward in 1912. Charles Edward Russell (25 September 1860 -- 23 April 1941) was an American "muckraking" journalist, author, and activist. he was born in Davenport Iowa, and died in Washington, DC. September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ...
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His father was a newspaper editor at the Davenport Gazette, and a noted abolitionist. He attended St. Johnsbury academy, Vermont, for his high school education.
He wrote a number of books of biography and social comment. In 1928 he won the Pulitizer Prize in biography for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas.
He wrote for the Minneapolis Journal, the Detroit Tribune, the New York World, William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan, and the New York Herald. He was a newspaper editor from 1894-1902 in New York and Chicago. The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-St. ...
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Work as a Journalist In his memoirs, Bare Hands and Stone Walls, Russell stated that "transforming the world...to a place where can can know some peace...some joy of living, some sense of the inexhaustible beauties of the universe in which he has been placed," was the purpose that inspired his work and his life. He was one of a group of journalists at the turn of the century who were called muckrakers. They investigated and reported--not with cold detachment--but with feeling and rage about the horrors of capitalism. In Soldier for the Common Good, an unpublished dissertation on Russell's life, author Donald Bragaw writes: "[Historian] Louis Filler has called [Russell] the leader of the muckrakers for contributing 'important studies in almost every field in which they ventured.' Most of Russell's work was of a 'pioneering nature: beef trusts...railroads...tenements...and the farm problem....[H]is real topic was injustice, wherever it was to be found." In American English, a muckraker is a journalist or an author who searches for and exposes scandals and abuses occurring in business and politics. ...
Russell's reports on the corrupt practices and inhuman conditions at Chicago stockyards were the basis for Upton Sinclair's powerful novel The Jungle, which caused a national uproar that led to inspection reforms. Upton Beall Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968)was a prolific American author who wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
Politics Russell was a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ...
He was a member of the Socialist Party before World War I. He was twice a candidate for Governor of the State of New York on the Socialist ticket, and he also ran for Mayor of New York City. He declined the party's presidential nomination in 1916. Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist though some are Social Democratic and some are not. ...
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Works published - Such Stuff as Dreams (1902, poetry)
- Thomas Chatterton: The Marvelous Boy (1908, biography)
- The Greatest Trust in the World (1905) (expose of the beef trust)
- The Uprising of the Many (1907)
- Lawless Wealth (1908) ((expose of the tobacco trust)
- Why I Am a Socialist (1910)
- These Shifting Scenes (1914)
- Unchained Russia (1918, nonfiction)
- After the Whirlwind (1919, nonfiction)
- Bolshevism and the United States (1919, nonfiction)
- The Story of the Non-partisan League (1920, nonfiction)
- The Outlook for the Philippines (1922, nonfiction)
- Julia Marlowe: Her Life and Art (1926, biography)
- The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas (1927, biography)
- Bare Hands and Stone Walls: Some Recollections of a Sideline Reformer (1933, memoir)
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Further reading - The Pen is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell by Robert Miraldi (2003)
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