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LINCOLN STEFFENS: A Biography
by Kaplan, Justin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0671215922
- ISBN 13
- 9780671215927
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Sm 4to. Black cloth, with gilt spine titles. Sky blue end papers. 380 pages, with Afterword, Notes, and Index. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. Gift inscription on Front FEP. No marks to text. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Waugh Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4486
- Title
- LINCOLN STEFFENS:
- Author
- Kaplan, Justin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- ISBN 10
- 0671215922
- ISBN 13
- 9780671215927
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
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