1900's Media | The Shame of the Cities

Nonfcition work

By: Lincoln Steffens

Date: 1904

Source: Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of the Cities. New York: Hill and Wang, 1904. Available online at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5732/; website home page: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ (accessed May 23, 2003).

About the Author: Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) pioneered the 1900s journalism movement known as muckraking. Born in San Francisco, California, Steffens studied at the University of California at Berkeley, then in Germany and France. He worked for several New York newspapers before becoming managing editor of the muckraking journal McClure's. His articles on government corruption led to his groundbreaking and most significant work, The Shame of the Cities. Steffens' crowning achievement was his...