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Joseph Lincoln „Link“ Steffens (* 6. April 1866 in San Francisco , USA ; † 9. August 1936 in Carmel , Kalifornien ) war ein US-amerikanischer Journalist .
Lincoln Steffens. Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century.
9. Apr. 2024 · Lincoln Steffens was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher who was a leading figure among the writers whom U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt called muckrakers. He was radicalized by the Mexican and Russian revolutions, and he supported many communist activities thereafter.
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13. Mai 2011 · Lincoln Steffens isn’t much remembered today, though Peter Hartshorn’s absorbing biography, “I Have Seen the Future,” makes it clear why he should be. As one of the original “muckrakers,”...
8. Juni 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Lincoln Steffens, the most famous American muckraker journalist who exposed corruption in government and business. Find out how he became a radical reformer and supporter of revolutions in Mexico and Russia.
27. Okt. 2015 · Lincoln Steffens was a journalist who exposed the scandals and systems that enabled political corruption in early 20th-century America. He argued that voters should focus on fixing the structure, not the individual, and that angry outrage was a way to avoid real change.
Lincoln Steffens was one of the most influential of the early muckrakers. Steffens annoyed many of the people about whom he wrote but he had a gift and a passion for investigating corruption, poverty and human failings and a penetrating interest in their causes, in the depths of human experience.
