[Gutenberg 16447] • The Clarion

[Gutenberg 16447] • The Clarion
Authors
Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Publisher
Wildside Press
Tags
reporters and reporting -- fiction , newspapers -- fiction , slums -- fiction , man-woman relationships -- fiction
ISBN
9781557423542
Date
2005-09-06T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.78 MB
Lang
en
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Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871--1958) was an American author, born in Dunkirk, New York. He served as a reporter for the New York Sun before joining McClure's Magazine, where he became a crusader for improved governmental oversight of public issues like patent medicines. He is credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. His books include Revelry (1926), The Great American Fraud (1906), The Harvey Girls (1942), Grandfather Stories (1955), and Tenderloin (1959).