In the Manhattan editorial office of McClure’s Magazine, one day in 1902, Samuel Sidney McClure gave his goateed managing editor a jolt straight from the shoulder. McClure told Lincoln Steffens: “You ...

THE LETTERS OF LINCOLN STEFFENS —Edited by Ella Winter & Granville Hicks—Harcourt, Brace ($10). Lincoln Steffens’ Autobiography was published in 1931, became an immediate best-seller despite ...

"We need some great failures," the muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsteffens.htm wrote in his autobiography. "Especially ...

Boy on horseback -- To the Continent and back -- Making his mark -- Enter TR -- A new venture -- The White House beckons -- Muckraking sensation -- The shame of the cities -- The shame of the states - ...