TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steffens,Lincoln
TI  - The Shame of the Cities
AV  - JS 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Political corruption -- United States
KW  - Municipal government -- United States
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shame_of_the_Cities; Release date is 2017-05-12; Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "The Shame of the Cities" by Lincoln Steffens is a collection of articles published in 1904. Originally written for McClure's Magazine, this pioneering work of muckraking journalism exposes corrupt political machines operating in major American cities. Rather than simply revealing scandals, Steffens challenges citizens to confront their own complicity in allowing corruption to flourish. Through investigations in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, he explores how business interests and public apathy enable systematic political corruption. The work questions whether government reform alone can solve deeply rooted civic problems. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54710
ER  -