Thursday, February 19, 2009

Henry Lloyd

Wrote the book "Wealth Against Commonwealth" in 1894.
Henry Lloyd was a muckraking journalist for the Chicago Tribune.Henry Demarest Lloyd was born in New York City on 1st May, 1847.Lloyd published a series of articles exposing corruption in business and politics. This included "The Story of a Great Monopoly"(1881) and "The Political Economy of Seventy-Three Million Dollars" (1882) in the Alantic Monthly and "Making Bread Dear" (1883) and "Lords of Industry" (1884) in the North American Review. These are all exemplary behaviors of a muckraker.