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Lincoln Steffens

Here's the life & world of Lincoln Steffens — the Columbus of muckraking, the father of American investigative journalism & a pivotal figure in the history of grassroots radicalism. Justin Kaplan brings alive early 20th-century America — a nation in the throes of becoming a great industrial power, a land dominated by big business & beset by social struggle & political corruption. It was the era of Lenin & Sinclair Lewis, of Emma Goldman & Wm Randolph Hearst, Teddy Roosevelt & John Reed. It was a time of union busting, anarchism & Tammany Hall. Steffens — eternally curious, a worldwide celebrity & a man of magnetic charm — was part of all he saw: reformism; the progressive movement; organized labor; Greenwich Village's intellectual, sexual & artistic liberation; the women's suffrage movement; the Russian Revolution; WWI; the Great Depression.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 383
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780671215927
  • Genres
  • biography, history
  • Release date
  • 1974