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The Brass Check: a Study of American Journalism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Columbia Journalism Review
Date: 20030301
Author:Boylan, James

By Upton Sinclair Introduction by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott University of Illinois Press. 446 pp. $39.95; 519.95 paper

This unruly classic, originally published by the author in 1919 and last reprinted fifty-seven years ago by Haldeman-Julius, the old socialist publishing house, has now been trotted out into the light of the twenty-first century. In their introduction, Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott of the University of Illinois make The Brass Check--the title comes from a token given by a customer to a prostitute--sound a little solemn, going so far as to call it a ...

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