Here, from the acclaimed biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, is the life and world of Lincoln Steffens -- the Columbus of muckraking, the father of American investigative journalism, and a pivotal figure in the history of grassroots radicalism.Justin Kaplan brings alive early twentieth-century America -- a nation in the throes of becoming a great industrial power, a land dominated by big business and beset by social struggle and political corruption. It was the era of Lenin and Sinclair Lewis, of Emma Goldman and ...
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Here, from the acclaimed biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, is the life and world of Lincoln Steffens -- the Columbus of muckraking, the father of American investigative journalism, and a pivotal figure in the history of grassroots radicalism.Justin Kaplan brings alive early twentieth-century America -- a nation in the throes of becoming a great industrial power, a land dominated by big business and beset by social struggle and political corruption. It was the era of Lenin and Sinclair Lewis, of Emma Goldman and William Randolph Hearst, Teddy Roosevelt and John Reed. It was a time of union busting, anarchism, and Tammany Hall.Lincoln Steffens -- eternally curious, a worldwide celebrity, and a man of magnetic charm -- was part of all he saw: reformism; the progressive movement; organized labor; Greenwich Village's intellectual, sexual, and artistic liberation; the women's suffrage movement; the Russian Revolution; World War I; the Great Depression.Lincoln Steffens was truly a man of his season, and his life reflects his times: impetuous, vital, creative, striving. In Lincoln Steffens, Justin Kaplan holds a mirror to an outsized American figure and to the tumult of turn-of-the-century America.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN: 0671220357.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The life and world of Lincoln Steffens, the Columbus of muckraking, a pivotal figure in the history of native radicalism and in the American consciousness. Black boards, 380 pp., photos. Minimal shelf wear, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
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Very Good in very good jacket. A Biography. Sm 4to. Black cloth, with gilt spine titles. Sky blue end papers. 380 pages, with Afterword, Notes, and Index. Illustrated with b/w photographic images. Gift inscription on Front FEP. No marks to text. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact.
