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Describe the following:
1) What the role of a muckraker was.
2) An example of a muckraker's published work (title, author, what it sought to reform).
What is one of many answers!
Muckrakers - members of the press or journalists who sought to expose social problems in America at the turn of the century.
Muckrakers include: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, etc.