In January 1906, in a full-page advertisement, The Oregonian announced “it had secured the services” of celebrated reporter Lincoln Steffens for an investigative series that would reveal “who and what ...
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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 ...
In the Manhattan editorial office of McClure’s Magazine, one day in 1902, Samuel Sidney McClure gave his goateed managing editor a jolt straight from the shoulder. McClure told Lincoln Steffens: “You ...
"Don't think never think. Go look and see for yourself." This advice to undergraduates was give by Lincoln Steffens, noted journalist and "muckraker," in an interview with the CRIMSON Friday. "There ...
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 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OP LINCOLN STEFFENS—Two Vols.—Harcourt, Brace ($7,50).† Lincoln Steffens is old and grey but not full of sleep. And what he has to say is nobody’s pipe-dream but a meaty, marrowy, ...
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 ...