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| Foreword | xiii | |
| Part I | A Boy on Horseback | |
| I | When I Was an Angel | 3 |
| II | My Savage Stage | 11 |
| III | A Miserable, Merry Christmas | 17 |
| IV | A Boy on Horseback | 24 |
| V | The Sporting Age | 34 |
| VI | A Painter and a Page | 42 |
| VII | The Neely Farm | 51 |
| VIII | A Prince and a Cowboy | 59 |
| IX | I Get Religion | 68 |
| X | I Become a Hero, Save a Life | 77 |
| XI | I Get a Colt to Break In | 86 |
| XII | I Become a Drunkard | 94 |
| XIII | Napoleon | 101 |
| XIV | All Through with Heroism | 106 |
| XV | Preparing for College | 111 |
| XVI | I Go to College | 117 |
| XVII | I Become a Student | 124 |
| XVIII | Berlin: Philosophy and Music | 129 |
| XIX | Heidelberg: There Is No Ethics | 134 |
| XX | Munich: There Are No Artists | 140 |
| XXI | Leipzig: Music, Science, Love | 146 |
| XXII | Over the Alps to Paris | 153 |
| XXIII | Paris, London-Home | 159 |
| Part II | Seeing New York First | |
| I | I Become a Reporter | 169 |
| II | Wall Street | 179 |
| III | Bulls and Bears | 187 |
| IV | The Police | 197 |
| V | Clubs, Clubbers, and Clubbed | 208 |
| VI | Dr. Parkhurst's Vice Crusade | 215 |
| VII | The Underworld | 221 |
| VIII | Bosses: Political and Financial | 231 |
| IX | The Ghetto | 239 |
| X | The Lexow Police Investigation | 247 |
| XI | Roosevelt and Reform | 255 |
| XII | Schmittberger: An Honest Policeman | 266 |
| XIII | Saving Schmittberger | 274 |
| XIV | I Make a Crime Wave | 285 |
| XV | I Inherit a Fortune | 292 |
| XVI | I Become a Capitalist | 302 |
| XVII | Remaking a Newspaper | 311 |
| XVIII | A Happy Newspaper Staff | 320 |
| XIX | Getting Old Bill Devery | 327 |
| XX | The Cuban War and T.R. | 338 |
| XXI | Colonel Roosevelt as Governer | 344 |
| Part III | Muckraking | |
| I | From Newspaper to Magazine | 357 |
| II | St. Louis, a City Inside Out | 365 |
| III | The Shame of Minneapolis | 374 |
| IV | I Achieve Fame and Something Better | 385 |
| V | The Shamelessness of St. Louis | 392 |
| VI | Pittsburgh: Hell with the Lid Lifted | 399 |
| VII | Philadelphia: A Defeated People | 407 |
| VIII | The Dying Boss | 416 |
| IX | Chicago: An Example of Reform | 422 |
| X | New York: Good Government | 430 |
| XI | Cos Cob: An Art Colony | 436 |
| XII | The Shame of the States: Missouri | 443 |
| XIII | Illinois: The Progressive Movement | 450 |
| XIV | Wisconsin and Bob La Follette | 454 |
| XV | Rhode Island: The Good Old American Stock | 464 |
| XVI | Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities | 470 |
| XVII | The City On a Hill | 477 |
| XVIII | Cincinnati and Boss Cox | 482 |
| XIX | Some Theories: Big Business and Privileged Business | 489 |
| XX | New Jersey: A Trust Factory | 495 |
| XXI | T.R. as President | 502 |
| XXII | The President Is Shaved | 509 |
| XXIII | Ben Lindsey: The Kids' Judge | 516 |
| XXIV | Muckraking Myself-A Little | 521 |
| XXV | Life Insurance | 527 |
| XXVI | Making the "American Magazine" | 535 |
| XXVII | Timber Frauds in Oregon | 544 |
| XXVIII | San Francisco: A Labor Government | 552 |
| XXIX | How Hard It Is to Keep Things Wrong | 561 |
| XXX | Los Angeles and the Apple | 570 |
| XXXI | Free-Lancing in Washington, D.C. | 575 |
| XXXII | Wall Street Again | 583 |
| XXXIII | Cubs: Walter Lippmann, for Example | 592 |
| XXXIV | A Successful Failure | 598 |
| XXXV | The Muck I Raked in Boston | 604 |
| XXXVI | "Boston 1915" | 612 |
| XXXVII | Principals and Heelers | 621 |
| Part IV | Revolution | |
| I | Playing with Reds and Liberals in New York | 631 |
| II | Experimenting with Philanthropy and Education | 641 |
| III | Seeing Europe with Business Men-Greenwich Village | 648 |
| IV | Dynamite | 658 |
| V | Settling with Dynamiters' Case. An Experiment with "Big, Bad Men" | 670 |
| VI | The Churches Decide Against Christianity | 679 |
| VII | I Become a Goat | 690 |
| VIII | Europe: A Procession of Nations Marching to War | 702 |
| IX | Mexico: The First Revolution | 712 |
| X | Carranza and Madero | 722 |
| XI | Wilson and Mexico | 733 |
| XII | To Russia: A Second Revolution | 741 |
| XIII | The Russian Revolution | 747 |
| XIV | Kerenski | 757 |
| XV | Kerenski to Wilson | 764 |
| XVI | Preparing for Peace | 773 |
| XVII | The Peacemaker | 778 |
| XVIII | The Bullitt Mission to Moscow | 790 |
| XIX | The Peace that Was No Peace | 803 |
| XX | Mussolini | 812 |
| XXI | Experimental Europe | 821 |
| XXII | A European View of America | 830 |
| Part V | Seeing America at Last | |
| I | The Dynamiters Again | 841 |
| II | The New United States | 849 |
| III | Prohibition: A Hang-Over | 858 |
| IV | Prophecy | 865 |
| V | Falling Out of Bed | 872 |
| Index | 875 |
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Thomas Grillo
reviewed The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens on February 17, 2013 The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
It astonishes me that we have all heard of De Tocqueville, Alexis yet Lincoln Steffens remains in comparative obscurity. I would never have read this book were it not some off hand recommendation I read somewhere that I don't even remember.
What you can say of both de Tocqueville and Steffens is this: there is nothing a person can say about American politics which each of them did not already say in his own way.
Steffens obscurity is probably related to the fact that his observations do not fit anyone's agenda. When it is time to blame the left Steffens finds a way to blame the right and vice versa. When it is time to blame big business Steffens notes that corruption requires the collusion of the voters, and when it is time to blame petty criminality Steffens notes the necessity of the collusion of big business.
The sweep of history is extraordinary. This is a man who knew Teddy Roosevelt and the industrialists, but also Trotsky and Lenin. To a lover of biography and California history the first 200 pages about a boy roaming early statehood Sacramento are not to be missed- it is worth getting into this book even if your intention is to set it aside when he leaves town for college.
The book is ginormous, but Steffens is a newspaper writer: each chapter forms a readable enclosed unit. Thought it is easy to read, it is difficult to determine what to do next. There is no agenda, there is no movement to join. There is just understanding the complexities of democracy.
I have added this book to my Essentials for Citizens Goodreads shelf. I can hardly think of a book more important to American citizens in the present day, and most people should find it readable (unlike de Tocqueville, no particular historical or political background is necessary- the information is provided in the chapters).
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