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1866 – 1936Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936)Died 9 August 1936, aged 70Lincoln Steffens was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers. He exposed municipal corruption in The Shame of the Cities. After visiting Soviet Russia, he wrote that he had seen the future and it works.