Lincoln Steffens Quotes

Lincoln Austin Steffens was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his leftist values. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. April 1866 – 9. August 1936
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The Shame of the Cities
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Lincoln Steffens Quotes

“I have seen the Future, and it works.”

Lincoln Steffens, letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia."

“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”

Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p. 2.

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