RAY STANNARD BAKER

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RAY STANNARD BAKER
RAY STANNARD BAKER
BY LAUREN PROVOST EMILY ALLEN
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What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
HE WAS A JOURNALIST AUTHOR!!!
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
What did Ray Stannard Baker do?
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Childhood
He was born in Lansing, Michigan on April 17, 1870
Not much is said about Ray Stannard Bakers
Childhood.
Michigan is pretty cold.
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Ray Stannard Baker attended Michigan State
College. He Graduated in 1889.
He enrolled in law school, but then decided to
focus on journalism literature as his career.
RAY STANNARD BAKERS EDUCATION
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JOBS
  The Chicago Record 1892-98 McClure's Associate
Editor (1899)
JOBS
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Fun Facts about
RAY STANNARD BAKER!

• Bakers pseudonym was David Grayson.
• Baker tried to write childrens stories.
• Ray joined a pioneer muckraking magazine,
  McClures.

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More fun facts about
RAY STANNARD BAKER!

• After joining McClure, Ray soon rose to the same
  prominence as Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens.

In 1906 Baker, Tarbell and Steffens created
American Magazine.
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• Baker was very impressed with Woodrow Wilson.
  He wrote a 8-Volume biography of his friend. In
  1940 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the
  last two volumes.

• RAY WROTE THREE other BOOKS
• Following the Color Line
• Native American (autobiography)
• American Chronicle (autobiography)

RAY STANNARD BAKERS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS
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Adventures in Contentment (1907, essays, pseudo.
David Grayson) American Chronicle (1945, memoir)
Adventures in Friendship (1910, essays, pseudo.
David Grayson) What Wilson Did at Paris (1919,
nonfiction) Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement
(1922, 3 vols.)
More books by Ray Stannard Baker!
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S O U R C E !

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Lincoln Steffens and Ray Stannard Baker 1905
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More than once, there in Paris, going up in the
evening to see the Presi- dent, I found him
looking utterly worn out, exhausted, often one
side of his face twitching with nervousness. No
soldier ever went into battle with more
enthusiasm, more aspiration, more devotion to a
sacred cause than the President had when he came
to Paris but day after day in those months we
saw him growing grayer and grayer, grimmer and
grimmer, with the fighting lines deepening in
his face.

• What Wilson Did at Paris by RAY STANNARD BAKER.

• CHAPTER ITHE PRESIDENT'S TASK IN PARIS NO ONE
  who really saw the President in action at Paris,
  saw what he did in those grilling months of
  struggle, fired at in front, sniped at from
  behind--and no one who saw what he had to do
  after he came home from Europe in meeting the
  great new prob- lems which grew out of the
  war--will for a moment belittle the immensity of
  his task, or underrate his extraordinary
  endurance, en- ergy, and courage.

PRIMARY SOURCE!!!!
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PRIMARY SOURCE
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He believed in social reform. He felt that
Woodrow Wilson was a presidential candidate
worthy of his support, because Wilson shared
similar beliefs. They became good friends.
He was a muckraker a person (journalist) who
searches for and exposes real or alleged
corruption, scandal, etc. especially in politics.
WHY RAY STANNARD BAKER IS CONSIDERED PART OF THE
PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT
He wrote several exposès for McClures Magazine
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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. During peace negotiations, Baker
served as Wilson's press secretary at Versailles.
(www.wikipedia.org)
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RAY STANNARD BAKERS
DEATH.

• Ray Stannard Baker died on July 12, 1946 of a
  heart attack in Amherst Massachusetts. He was
  buried in Wildwood Cemetery.

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RAY STANNARD BAKERApril 17, 1870-July 12, 1946

• GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!

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Bibliography
Wikipedia October 2, 2006 http//en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/Ray_Stannard_Baker
Spartacus October 3, 2006 http//www.spartacu
s.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsteffens.htm
PBS American Experience October 2,
2006 http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleev
ents/p_stannard.html
Swathmore October 3, 2006 http//www.swarthmore
.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Baker/index.html
Answers October 3, 2006 http//www.answers.com/
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