Lincoln Steffens
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New York Post/New York Evening Post (until 1902)

McClure's Magazine (until 1906)

The American Magazine (1906 onward)

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"Lincoln Joseph Steffens" (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in local government/municipal government in United States/American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.

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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I have seen the future; and it works. (Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919).

"So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the future and it works.

I have been over into the future, and it works.