This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we examine the important -- and often positive -- role scandals have played in American history. In interview historian Daniel Czitrom about his new book, New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford U Press, 2016). I also look at the scandal in the meatpacking industry triggered by the publication in 1906 of Upton Sinclair's famous novel, The Jungle.