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    Steffens was born in San Francisco, California, the only son and eldest of four children of Elizabeth Louisa (Symes) Steffens and Joseph Steffens. He...
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    the Muckrakers, Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith. Steffens, Lincoln (1958), The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (abridged ed.), New York: Harcourt, Brace &...
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  • a book written by American author Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904, it is a collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure’s Magazine...
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    Ray Stannard Baker, George Creel, and Brand Whitlock. Others such as Lincoln Steffens exposed political corruption in many large cities; Ida Tarbell is famed...
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  • Brazilian footballer Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936), American investigative journalist Lincoln Victor (born 2001), American football player Lincoln Wallen, British-American...
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    time in Santa Barbara, California, where her friend Lincoln Steffens had relatives. (Lincoln Steffens' sister Lottie was married to local rancher John J...
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  • Steffens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bradley Steffens (born 1955), American author Dirk Steffens (born 1950), German musician...
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    politics, such as those written by Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens. The magazine ran fiction and nonfiction by the leading writers of...
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    Arthur Conan Doyle, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Lincoln Steffens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain. At the beginning of the 20th...
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    muckraker Lincoln Steffens at the Versailles Conference, where she was secretary to US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Winter and Steffens married...
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    a scandal which was publicized nationwide by muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens in a 1903 article in McClure's Magazine titled The Shame of Minneapolis...
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    muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens arrived in Los Angeles. Steffens, convinced the McNamaras were guilty, visited them in jail. Steffens proposed to defend...
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  • Morgan Jesse Pomeroy Henry C. Potter Jacob Riis Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln Steffens Franz Boas The Alienist is set in the neighborhood where Carr lived...
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    of a valuable contact from Harvard, Lincoln Steffens, who was establishing a reputation as a muckraker. Steffens quickly appreciated Reed's skills and...
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    investigate Tammany Hall corruption under the leadership of Richard Croker. Lincoln Steffens, a popular journalist of that time wrote of Devery, "As a Chief of...
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  • violent in a deviancy amplification spiral. In his autobiography, Lincoln Steffens details how news reporting can be used to create the impression of...
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    E. B. Du Bois, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard...
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    Debs had been nominated for the Socialist presidential nomination. Lincoln Steffens initially believed that Debs was not suitable for the presidency, but...
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  • journalists; for example: Ida M. Tarbell, Ida B. Wells, Nellie Bly, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, George Seldes, and I.F. Stone. 20th and 21st century...
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  • objective news work also include the muckraking of Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens, the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, the underground press of the 1960s...
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  • he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman. Kaplan was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in...
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  • The art colony also included many writers and editors, including Lincoln Steffens and Willa Cather. Members of the Cos Cob art colony were deeply involved...
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    Upton Sinclair, novelist and social reformer George Sterling, poet Lincoln Steffens, writer Robert Louis Stevenson, author Henry Meade Williams Mona Williams...
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  • in Minneapolis. This issue was first brought to public attention by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities which chronicles the widespread...
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  • alongside Lincoln Steffens and I. F. Stone, one of "three great independent journalists" of the 20th century, as well as "the living link between Steffens and...
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    Ida Tarbell (category Biographers of Abraham Lincoln)
    return to the states, Tarbell handed over the desk editor role to Lincoln Steffens in 1901, and began a meticulous investigation with the help of an assistant...
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    Rubinstein Carl Sandburg E. W. Scripps George Bernard Shaw Frank Sinatra Lincoln Steffens Gertrude Stein Rabindranath Tagore Marshal Tito Getúlio Vargas H. G...
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    1901-1904". Arizona and the West, 1976, Vol. 18 Issue 1, pp 5–20 Lincoln Steffens, Upbuilders (Garden City, New York, 1909) "Lindsey Urges Marriage For...
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  • Andrew Furuseth (left) and Senator La Follette (center) were the architects of the Seamen's Act of 1915. With muckraker Lincoln Steffens, circa 1915....
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    World War I, the Yiddish Theatre District was cited by journalists Lincoln Steffens, Norman Hapgood, and others as the best in the city. It was the leading...
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