{"product_id":"9781476775593","title":"Lincoln Steffens: Portrait of a Great American Journalist","description":"The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman brings alive the life and world of Lincoln Steffens, the original Muckraker and father of American investigative journalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly 20th century America was 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 Sinclair Lewis, Emma Goldman, William Randolph Hearst, and John Reed. It was a time of union busting, anarchism, and Tammany Hall.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLincoln Steffens—eternally curious, a worldwide celebrity, and a man of magnetic charm—was a towering figure at the center of this world. He was friends with everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. As an editor at McClure’s magazine—along with Ida Tarbell he was one of the original muckrakers—he published articles that exposed the political and social corruption of the time. His book, \u003ci\u003eShame of the Cities, \u003c\/i\u003etook on the corruption of local politics and his coverage of bad business practices on Wall Street helped lead to the creation of the Federal Reserve.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLincoln Steffens was truly a man of his season, and his life reflects his times: impetuous, vital, creative, striving. In telling the story of this outsized American figure\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Justin Kaplan also tells the riveting tale of turn-of-the-century America.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107635970288,"sku":"9781476775593","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476775593_p0.jpg?v=1763610471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476775593","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}