biography
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Russell, Charles Edward
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| lived:
| (1860–1941)
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| biography:
| Journalist, reformer, and Socialist, born in Davenport, Iowa, USA. Convinced that free trade was a cure for social ills, he founded the Iowa Free Trade League (1881). He then combined journalism with reform as city editor of the New York World (1894–7), managing editor of the New York American (1897–1900), and publisher of the Chicago American (1900–2). In the following years he became a well-known ‘muckraker’, writing magazine articles exposing problems in American society. He became a prominent Socialist (1910), ran three times for office unsuccessfully, wrote 27 books, and won a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction (1927). Widely travelled and cosmopolitan, he combined a world outlook with Midwestern egalitarianism. As a reporter and editor, his wide-ranging curiosity, passion for facts, and boundless optimism influenced a generation, forcing penal reform in Georgia and tenement reforms in New York. |
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