Anderson biography on lincoln steffens
The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman brings alive the life and world of Lincoln Steffens, the original Muckraker.
Back on the Wall Street beat for a second time, by Steffens revised his thinking, concluding that big business was really the problem with American.!
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an Americanjournalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking.
He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works." His more famous quote "I've seen the future, and it works" can be found on the titlepage of his wife's, Ella Winter, 1933 edition of Red Virtue.[1] His journalism courted controversy but also represents the "fourth estate" at its best.
Politicians are of course bound by the same laws as the rest of the population but their office sometimes makes it possible for an unscrupulous individual to by-pass legal constraints, or to ignore them and unless their actions are made public, no action can be taken to censure them.
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