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From what literary work is the term “muckraker” derived?

July 23, 2020August 1, 2012 by Pamela Landy

President Teddy Roosevelt drew this unflattering nickname “muckraker” for early 20th-century investigative reporters from the 17th-century allegory Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.

In this book, a muckraker is a worker too busy gathering dirt and debris to see the celestial crown overhead.

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