Cultural Writing. Here is the autobiography of one of the world's first celebrity journalists: Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), a man whose writing was so notorious that President Theodore Roosevelt coined a term for it--muckraking. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN STEFFENS is the story of a cranky and brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex and contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty, and misery. As sch, this books is an antidote to the spin doctors, pundits, and talking heads who discourage us ...
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Cultural Writing. Here is the autobiography of one of the world's first celebrity journalists: Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), a man whose writing was so notorious that President Theodore Roosevelt coined a term for it--muckraking. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN STEFFENS is the story of a cranky and brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex and contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty, and misery. As sch, this books is an antidote to the spin doctors, pundits, and talking heads who discourage us from ever reading past a headline or challenging the status quo. Lincoln Steffens is an inspiration to all socially engaged citizens today. With an introduction by Thomas C. Leonard.
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Good. 1931. Hardcover. Ex-libris with usual markings. In original cloth without dustwrapper. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover and sunning to spine and page edges but otherwise clean.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good in Good jacket. Later. Good in good dustwrapper. Pages evenly brown from age. Edges of gray cover brown. Spine brown. Top edge of spine starting to fray. Dustwrapper spine discolored. Small tears on edges of dustwrapper spine. Dustwrapper lightly shelf rubbed. Small hole on front dustwrapper on Steffens face. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Acceptable. INSCRIBED! New York: The Literary Guild, 1931. 5th printing. Complete in One Volume. 8vo hardcover. Green cloth boards. xi+884pp. Illustrations, B/W photos. Inscribed to Julian Hawthorne, author and son of Nathanial Hawthorne, by author on front endpage. Good book. No dust jacket. Spine darkened. Edgeworn. Pages toned. (Lincoln Steffens, Journalists, Autobiography) Inquire if you need further information.
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