The Top 100 20th Century Works of Journalism in the US

April 6, 2010

This is a good list, chosen by (mostly) good solid journalists.  Hiroshima and Slouching Toward Bethlehem would both be on my favorites list, too, as would Mencken’s reporting on the Scopes trial, Lincoln Steffens’ and Ida Tarbell’s muckraker reports on poverty and Standard Oil,  Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, The Souls of Black Folk, Silent Spring, Dispatches, Steinbeck’s reports on Okie migrant camp life, and the Fire Next Time.

I haven’t read a lot of these, though, and I intend to check a lot of the unread pieces out. They sound fascinating.

h/t Bookslut.