Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904; Hill & Wang, 1957; Sagamore Press, 1957) This work is a collection of magazine articles, which Steffens wrote for McClure's Magazine. Steffens was a reporter for the New York Evening Post and was famous for the muckraking journalism style. The Shame of Cities was a series of investigative articles, which Steffens wrote in order to expose local government corruption. MORE: Steffens's introduction to the book An excerpt from the book Amazon Amazon |
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