Autobiography of Lincoln Steffans

Rediscover a man Americans turned to not only for news but for humor and wisdom as well. Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens (1866-1936) was an editor at the New York Evening Post, and later at McClure's Magazine. As popular as he was cantankerous, he brushed shoulders with presidents and corporate barons, tsars and dictators.

Foreword

xiii

PART I. A BOY ON HORSEBACK

When I Was an Angel

3

(8)

My Savage Stage

11

(6)

A Miserable, Merry Christmas

17

(7)

A Boy on Horseback

24

(10)

The Sporting Age

34

(8)

A Painter and a Page

42

(9)

The Neely Farm

51

(8)

A Prince and a Cowboy

59

(9)

I Get Religion

68

(9)

I Become a Hero, Save a Life

77

(9)

I Get a Colt to Break In

86

(8)

I Become a Drunkard

94

(7)

Napoleon

101

(5)

All Through with Heroism

106

(5)

Preparing for College

111

(6)

I Go to College

117

(7)

I Become a Student

124

(5)

Berlin: Philosophy and Music

129

(5)

Heidelberg: There Is No Ethics

134

(6)

Munich: There Are No Artists

140

(6)

Leipzig: Music, Science, Love

146

(7)

Over the Alps to Paris

153

(6)

Paris, London---Home

159

(10)

PART II. SEEING NEW YORK FIRST

I Become a Reporter

169

(10)

Wall Street

179

(8)

Bulls and Bears

187

(10)

The Police

197

(11)

Clubs, Clubbers, and Clubbed

208

(7)

Dr. Parkhurst's Vice Crusade

215

(6)

The Underworld

221

(10)

Bosses: Political and Financial

231

(8)

The Ghetto

239

(8)

The Lexow Police Investigation

247

(8)

Roosevelt and Reform

255

(11)

Schmittberger: An Honest Policeman

266

(8)

Saving Schmittberger

274

(11)

I Make a Crime Wave

285

(7)

I Inherit a Fortune

292

(10)

I Become a Capitalist

302

(9)

Remaking a Newspaper

311

(9)

A Happy Newspaper Staff

320

(7)

Getting Old Bill Devery

327

(11)

The Cuban War and T.R.

338

(6)

Colonel Roosevelt as Governer

344

(13)

PART III. MUCKRAKING

From Newspaper to Magazine

357

(8)

St. Louis, a City Inside Out

365

(9)

The Shame of Minneapolis

374

(11)

I Achieve Fame and Something Better

385

(7)

The Shamelessness of St. Louis

392

(7)

Pittsburgh: Hell with the Lid Lifted

399

(8)

Philadelphia: A Defeated People

407

(9)

The Dying Boss

416

(6)

Chicago: An Example of Reform

422

(8)

New York: Good Government

430

(6)

Cos Cob: An Art Colony

436

(7)

The Shame of the States: Missouri

443

(7)

Illinois: The Progressive Movement

450

(4)

Wisconsin and Bob La Follette

454

(10)

Rhode Island: The Good Old American Stock

464

(6)

Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities

470

(7)

The City On a Hill

477

(5)

Cincinnati and Boss Cox

482

(7)

Some Theories: Big Business and Privileged Business

489

(6)

New Jersey: A Trust Factory

495

(7)

T.R. as President

502

(7)

The President Is Shaved

509

(7)

Ben Lindsey: The Kids' Judge

516

(5)

Muckraking Myself---A Little

521

(6)

Life Insurance

527

(8)

Making the ``American Magazine''

535

(9)

Timber Frauds in Oregon

544

(8)

San Francisco: A Labor Government

552

(9)

How Hard It Is to Keep Things Wrong

561

(9)

Los Angeles and the Apple

570

(5)

Free-Lancing in Washington, D.C.

575

(8)

Wall Street Again

583

(9)

Cubs: Walter Lippmann, for Example

592

(6)

A Successful Failure

598

(6)

The Muck I Raked in Boston

604

(8)

``Boston 1915''

612

(9)

Principals and Heelers

621

(10)

PART IV. REVOLUTION

Playing with Reds and Liberals in New York

631

(10)

Experimenting with Philanthropy and Education

641

(7)

Seeing Europe with Business Men---Greenwich Village

648

(10)

Dynamite

658

(12)

Settling with Dynamiters' Case. An Experiment with ``Big, Bad Men''

670

(9)

The Churches Decide Against Christianity

679

(11)

I Become a Goat

690

(12)

Europe: A Procession of Nations Marching to War

702

(10)

Mexico: The First Revolution

712

(10)

Carranza and Madero

722

(11)

Wilson and Mexico

733

(8)

To Russia: A Second Revolution

741

(6)

The Russian Revolution

747

(10)

Kerenski

757

(7)

Kerenski to Wilson

764

(9)

Preparing for Peace

773

(5)

The Peacemaker

778

(12)

The Bullitt Mission to Moscow

790

(13)

The Peace that Was No Peace

803

(9)

Mussolini

812

(9)

Experimental Europe

821

(9)

A European View of America

830

(11)

PART V. SEEING AMERICA AT LAST

The Dynamiters Again

841

(8)

The New United States

849

(9)

Prohibition: A Hang-Over

858

(7)

Prophecy

865

(7)

Falling Out of Bed

872

(3)

Index

875

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