Lincoln Steffens

Here, in what The Nation publisher Victor Navasky says ''ought to be assigned reading,'' is the autobiography of one of the world's first celebrity journalists: Lincoln Steffens, a man whose writing was so notorious that President Theodore Roosevelt coined a term for it--muckraking. Growing up in Sacramento, Steffens (1866-1936) was an editor at the New York Evening Post, and later at McClure's...

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