Examining the work of 21 investigative writers and how their efforts forever changed our country, this refreshing' (Kirkus Reviews) anthology features such authors as Upton Sinclaire, author of The Jungle, Ida Mae Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, journalist George Seldes, Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck, environmentalist Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Malcolm X, Ralph Nader, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the Watergate story and brought down President Richard Nixon.'
