My Heroes – Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was among the first American journalist to adopt the muckraking method of reporting. I read his autobiography at a time that I was undergoing a change in my way of thinking.
He not only exposed corruption in the governments of American cities, but checked out the various revolutions going on in the rest of the world. He preferred men of action and initially championed both the Russian communist revolution and Mussolini’s fascism. He would later disavow both after it became apparent that in both cases basic human rights were violated.
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