26 août 1868 - APR 6, 1866
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Lincoln Steffens
Steffen's series, published as The Shame of the Cities in 1940, which became a best seller. Its popularity was well deserved, for Steffens's work stood far above most of the other muckraking exposés of municipal corruption in terms of both literary style and intellectual perception. Steffen He wanted to expose the pattern of corruption and the real villains, the supposedly respectable, honest businessmen whose bribes and greed fueled the whole system.
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