Lincoln Steffens

Joseph Lincoln "Link" Steffens ( born April 6, 1866 in San Francisco, USA; † August 9, 1936 in Carmel, California ) was an American journalist.

Life

Steffens was the son of wealthy businessmen and studied in California, France and Germany, graduating from the University of California. From 1892 he worked for the New York Evening Post. Later he became editor of McClure 's Magazine, where he. An investigative style, co-developed so-called muckraking and thus significantly contributed to uncovering the corruption in the U.S. (and in particular the New York ) Society

In 1906 he founded together with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, the then well-known for his enlightening radical American Magazine. After 1910, Steffens ' reporting on corruption decreased gradually. Instead, his attention focused on the Mexican Revolution. He was a strong advocate of the so- called rebels and focused more and more the revolution as the only way to escape capitalism. From 1919 to 1921 Steffens visited Soviet Russia and wrote enthusiastically: " I have seen the future and it works ". With the rise of Stalinism, he showed but then increasingly disappointed by the Russian Revolution. He died in 1936.

Works

• The Shame of the Cities; 1904
• The Struggle for Self -Government; 1906

• Journalist (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1866
• Died in 1936
• Man