The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lincoln Steffens
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1866-1930
- Setting: The United States, Europe, Mexico, and the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Lincoln Steffens
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: History, Self-discovery, Current events, Journalism or journalists, Memory, Politics, Art or artists
- Locales: United States, Mexico, Russia
Form and Content
When The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens was first published, it was a surprising commercial success. Produced in two volumes, totaling nearly nine hundred pages, Lincoln Steffens’ story is a tribute to evolutionary and revolutionary thinking. To a world experiencing a catastrophic economic depression, such an expansive (and expensive) treatise on the changing political and social theories of a journalist whose popularity had reached its zenith some twenty-five years earlier might be considered somewhat excessive. Yet the autobiography achieved for...
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