Wrote the book "The Shame Of The Cities" in 1904.
Steffens was a journalist. He later became an editor of McClure's magazine. he worked with famous muckrakers Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker. He was especially good at investigating government and political corruption. Two of his articles actually were made up into his book "The Shame Of The Cities" and "Struggle for Self-Government." He, Tarbell, and Baker, all formed American Magazine.
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