The 10 Best Books About Investigative Reporting.
Discover the 10 best books about investigative reporting, from Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Essential reads for journalists and true-crime fans.
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
The uncut version of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packinghouses.
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
by Greg Palast
An investigative journalist provides an expose of intrigue, financial misdeeds, and other machinations at the highest level of American politics.
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Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough
"Barbarians at the Gate" is the classic account of the defining takeover in Wall Street merger history. The authors' gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street, in fall of 1988, gives a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.
