Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! In the spring of 1903, muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens checked into the St. James ...
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Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History Voters are in a bad mood. Again. We are routinely (and justifiably) frustrated with our politicians, but “throwing the ...
At the turn of the century, crusading journalist Lincoln Steffens set about exposing municipal corruption in American cities, calling Philadelphia “simply the most corrupt and the most contented.” ...
THE LETTERS OF LINCOLN STEFFENS —Edited by Ella Winter & Granville Hicks—Harcourt, Brace ($10). Lincoln Steffens’ Autobiography was published in 1931, became an immediate best-seller despite ...
Mr. J. Lincoln Steffens will speak on "Present Day Opportunities for Radicals" under the auspices of the Socialist Club in Emerson F this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to the public ...
Mr. Lincoln Steffens delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The McNamara Dynamiters: Social Symptoms." Mr. Steffens pointed out that the problem of graft was the same in cities, states, or ...
Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Certainly, the worst of what Steffens saw 100 years ago no longer exists. There isn’t ...
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