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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

Rediscover a man Americans turned to not only for news but for humor & wisdom. Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens (1866-1936) was an editor at the NY Evening Post, later at McClure’s Magazine. As popular as he was cantankerous, he brushed shoulders with presidents & corporate barons, tsars & dictators. His efforts to expose corruption took him all over the nation & on to Mexico, Europe & the new USSR, where he made his famous proclamation, ‘I have seen the future, & it works!’ He would later become disenchanted with Soviet communism, & eventually he returned to California, to feel again its ‘warm, colorful force of beauty’ & to write what would become this best-selling memoir. Inspiring, entertaining & lyrical, The Autobiography is the story of a brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex & contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty & misery.

Acknowledgments

A Boy on Horseback

Seeing New York First

Muckraking

Revolution

Seeing America Last

Illustrations

Index

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 882
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781597140164
  • Settings
  • United States of America
  • Genres
  • autobiography, biography, history, journalism
  • Release date
  • 2005