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Ray Stannard Baker, (April 17, 1870-July 12, 1946), American journalist and author, was born in Lansing, Michigan.
In 1912, Baker supported the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, which led to a close relationship between the two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation.
Baker died of a heart attack in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is buried there in Wildwood Cemetery.
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  Ray Stannard Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ray Stannard Baker, (April 17, 1870-July 12, 1946), American journalist and author, was born in Lansing, Michigan.
In 1896, Baker joined the staff of McClure's, a pioneer muckraking magazine, and quickly rose to prominence along with Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell.
In 1912, Baker supported the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, which led to a close relationship between the two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation.
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 Ray Stannard Baker Papers Finding Aid | Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Baker's papers went to the Library of Congress prior to the time of the Princeton purchase.
Baker's correspondence during the fourteen years of his work on the Wilson biography; (2) the material which he, himself, gathered during that time, memoranda of interviews, original letters, copies of original letters, printed matter; and (3) a considerable body of notes made by one of his assistants dealing especially with the period 19161918."
Baker at the Peace Conference were the daily information sheets which were circulated among the American Commission to Negotiate Peace; or files on particular subjects compiled from these records and other materials; miscellaneous publications and reports originating in organizations of the Conference.
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 PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson | People
Ray Stannard Baker was a leading national journalist whose belief in social reform led to a close personal and professional relationship with Woodrow Wilson.
Baker became famous for his muckraking articles, working in the company of such accomplished investigative journalists as Ida Tarbell the woman who single-handedly revealed John D. Rockefeller's unethical business tactics.
Baker went to work on an eight-volume history of Wilson's life that would be published from 1927 to 1939.
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 McClure's chapter 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Baker caught some of his editor's contagious enthusiasm and undertook an article examining the issue.
Baker viewed these men as individuals who merely wished to live and work as they pleased, and his article portrayed brave miners being abused by union agitators.
Baker shows labor, the ancient enemy of capital, and the chief complaint of the trusts' unlawful acts, itself committing and excusing crimes.
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 Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946)
Ray Stannard Baker, journalist, author, and biographer of Woodrow Wilson, was born in Lansing, Michigan on April 17, 1870 and died in Amherst, Massachusetts on July 12, 1946.
But with McClure's colleagues Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, Baker soon gained a national reputation as one of the leading "muckrakers," the term Theodore Roosevelt applied to crusading journalists in 1906.
That same year Baker published the first of a series of "adventures in contentment" under the pen name "David Grayson." Totaling nine volumes in all, the David Grayson adventures attracted millions of readers world-wide.
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 Ray Stannard Baker Biography / Biography of Ray Stannard Baker Main Biography
The American author Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) was a noted muckraking journalist before he became the official biographer of Woodrow Wilson.
Ray Stannard Baker was born in Lansing, Mich., on April 17, 1870.
In 1892 Baker went to work for the Chicago Record, remaining for 6 years as reporter and editor.
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 Ray Stannard Baker
Ray Stannard Baker was born in Michigan in 1870.
Baker himself was involved in exposing railroad and financial corruption.
While I had been reporting political corruption, Ray Stannard Baker had been describing the corruption of labor unions by contractors in the building business, and Miss Ida M. Tarbell had been writing the history of the Standard Oil Company.
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 Baker Ray Stannard - AOL Research & Learn
Baker Ray Stannard - AOL Research & Learn
An intimate of Woodrow Wilson, Baker was sent to Europe in 1918 as one of the president's special agents to study the war situation.
At the peace conference at Versailles, Baker was director of the press bureau of the American peace commission.
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 Ray Stannard Baker Biography / Biography of Ray Stannard Baker Elements of Pop Culture Biography
Ray Stannard Baker Biography / Biography of Ray Stannard Baker Elements of Pop Culture Biography
Ray Stannard Baker became both a leading muckraking journalist of the Progressive era and an acclaimed writer of nonfiction books and pastoral prose.
From 1906 to 1942, under the pseudonym of David Grayson, Baker wrote an extremely popular series of novels celebrating the rural life.
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