Ray Stannard Baker

Ray was born April 17, 1870 in Lansing, Michigan. He started his newspaper career as a reporter for the Chicago News-Record. He was a leading national journalist who believed strongly in social reform. From the books he wrote, Baker was able to expose problems in society, identify control, incite a response from his readers, and maintain his authority over his work. Woodrow Wilson respected and supported Baker, and eventually ended up working as Woodrow's press secretary. Here are a select few of books written by Baker which were written under his pen name David Grayson:

• Boys' Book of Inventions (1899)
• Our New Prosperity (1900)
• Seen in Germany (1901)
• Adventures in Contentment (1907)
• Following the Color Line (1908)
• The Spiritual Unrest (1910)
• Adventures of Friendship (1910)
• The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment (1913)
• Great Possessions: A New Series of Adventures (1917)
• The New Industrial Unrest (1920)
• Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement (1922)
• Adventures in Understanding (1925)
• Adventures in Solitude (1931)
• Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters (1939)"We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter."– Ray Stannard Baker.
• This cartoon represents the importance of the problems in society he revealed to the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38iwMJzQV8

This very short clip made up by a student gives additional insight on his reform.