Rediscover a man Americans turned to not only for news but for humor & wisdom. Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens was an editor at the NY Evening Post, later at McClure?s Magazine. As popular as he was cantankerous, he brushed shoulders with presidents & corporate barons, tsars & dictators. His efforts to expose corruption took him all over the nation & on to Mexico, Europe & the new USSR, where he made his famous proclamation, ?I have seen the future, & it works!? He would later become disenchanted with Soviet communism, & eventually he returned to California, to feel again its ?warm, colorful force of beauty? & to write what would become this best-selling memoir. Inspiring, entertaining & lyrical, The Autobiography is the story of a brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex & contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty & misery.
Acknowledgments
A Boy on Horseback
Seeing New York First
Muckraking
Revolution
Seeing America Last
Illustrations
Index
Rediscover a man Americans turned to not only for news but for humor & wisdom. Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens was an editor at the NY Evening Post, later at McClure?s Magazine. As popular as he was cantankerous, he brushed shoulders with presidents & corporate barons, tsars & dictators. His efforts to expose corruption took him all over the nation & on to Mexico, Europe & the new USSR, where he made his famous proclamation, ?I have seen the future, & it works!? He would later become disenchanted with Soviet communism, & eventually he returned to California, to feel again its ?warm, colorful force of beauty? & to write what would become this best-selling memoir. Inspiring, entertaining & lyrical, The Autobiography is the story of a brilliant reporter with a passion for examining the complex & contradictory conditions that breed corruption, poverty & misery.
Acknowledgments
A Boy on Horseback
Seeing New York First
Muckraking
Revolution
Seeing America Last
Illustrations
Index