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100 1 _aSteffens, Lincoln,
_d1866-1936
245 1 4 _aThe Shame of the Cities
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shame_of_the_Cities
500 _aRelease date is 2017-05-12
508 _aProduced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPolitical corruption -- United States
653 _aMunicipal government -- United States
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54710
999 _c95542
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