"Tweed Days in St. Louis"
Magazine article
By: Lincoln Steffens
Date: 1902
Source: Steffens, Lincoln. "Tweed Days in St. Louis." 1902. Reprinted in The Shame of the Cities. New York: P. Smith, 1948, 132–136.
About the Author: Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) was a leading journalist and Progressive reformer who captured the attention of the American public with a series of articles describing misgovernment and corruption in cities. Originally published in McClure's Magazine and later collected in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. Steffens' articles are some of the best-known "muckraking" publications of the Progressive era. Steffens left McClure's in 1906 to become a freelance writer. He published his Autobiography in 1931.
Introduction
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