Lincoln Steffens: a biography. [1st hardcover].
by Kaplan, Justin
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+ dj. (FORMER LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. Covers & text clean/tight/bright. Jacket complete/clean, meager edge wea
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About This Item
New York. Simon & Schuster. (c1974). HARDCOVER.. VG+/VG+ dj. (FORMER LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. Covers & text clean/tight/bright. Jacket complete/clean, meager edge wear). Octavo. (8vo.) 24 pages of vintage photographs in black & white. 384pp. Includes Source Notes, Index. Gilt stamped, black cloth covers. First Edition. 1st Printing per print number line. FORMER LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. Covers & text clean/tight/bright: no writings, no spine creasing. Jacket complete, scuffed but clean, meager edge wear.
Synopsis
The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman brings alive the life and world of Lincoln Steffens, the original Muckraker and father of American investigative journalism. Early 20th century America was a nation in the throes of becoming a great industrial power, a land dominated by big business and beset by social struggle and political corruption. It was the era of Sinclair Lewis, Emma Goldman, William Randolph Hearst, and John Reed. It was a time of union busting, anarchism, and Tammany Hall. Lincoln SteffensâÈ'eternally curious, a worldwide celebrity, and a man of magnetic charmâÈ'was a towering figure at the center of this world. He was friends with everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. As an editor at McClureâÈçs magazineâÈ'along with Ida Tarbell he was one of the original muckrakersâÈ'he published articles that exposed the political and social corruption of the time. His book, Shame of the Cities, took on the corruption of local politics and his coverage of bad business practices on Wall Street helped lead to the creation of the Federal Reserve. Lincoln Steffens was truly a man of his season, and his life reflects his times: impetuous, vital, creative, striving. In telling the story of this outsized American figure , Justin Kaplan also tells the riveting tale of turn-of-the-century America.
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- Bookseller
- Booktopia
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2110216
- Title
- Lincoln Steffens: a biography. [1st hardcover].
- Author
- Kaplan, Justin
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+ dj. (FORMER LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. Covers & text clean/tight/bright. Jacket complete/clean, meager edge wea
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- (c1974).
- Pages
- 384pp.
- Keywords
- Lincoln Steffens Biography 20th Century Journalism Journalists Gilded Age American United States History Muckrakers
- Size
- Octavo. (8vo.)
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