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The famous progressive muckrakers Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell visited Italy and wrote glowing accounts of the Blackshirt regime.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Thus did the notorious Boston ward boss Martin Lomasney justify himself in 1908 to investigative reporter Lincoln Steffens.
A Muckraker Looks Ahead Robert K. Landers 2011
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"Reform" carries positive overtones of courage, and change, improvement, while the word "reformer" has been applied to great heroes like Teddy Roosevelt or Lincoln Steffens who fought for the powerless and the victimized.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die RJ 2011
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Most notable among them were journalists like Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, whose articles appeared in a new magazine, McClure's, at the turn of the last century.
Allan Brawley: Who Will Be Today's Muckraking Journalists, Wealthy Social Reformers and Principled Political Leaders That We Need So Badly? Allan Brawley 2011
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"Reform" carries positive overtones of courage, and change, improvement, while the word "reformer" has been applied to great heroes like Teddy Roosevelt or Lincoln Steffens who fought for the powerless and the victimized.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die RJ 2011
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Andy Stern appears to follow in the tradition of Lincoln Steffens in that he's "seen the future, and it works."
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Most notable among them were journalists like Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, whose articles appeared in a new magazine, McClure's, at the turn of the last century.
Allan Brawley: Who Will Be Today's Muckraking Journalists, Wealthy Social Reformers and Principled Political Leaders That We Need So Badly? Allan Brawley 2011
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As Justin Kaplan noted in his incisive 1974 biography, "Lincoln Steffens," Steffens began to involve himself in what "proved to be, in many respects, an accelerating series of disasters."
A Muckraker Looks Ahead Robert K. Landers 2011
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Most notable among them were journalists like Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, whose articles appeared in a new magazine, McClure's, at the turn of the last century.
Allan Brawley: Who Will Be Today's Muckraking Journalists, Wealthy Social Reformers and Principled Political Leaders That We Need So Badly? Allan Brawley 2011
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The famous muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens spent his Sacramento childhood on horseback, riding free in all directions, sometimes lost in his imagined role as Napoleon or Richard the Lion-Hearted.
Five Best Books on the Progressive Era Louise Knight 2010
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