“Ultimately, the salon, Steffens noted, helped change the public perception of Greenwich Village, although hardly in the manner Dodge had hoped. What had been a neighborhood better known for cheap rents and no shortage of decrepit apartments was becoming almost… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce “facts of scientific value” on labor issues in… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the salon, Steffens noted, helped change the public perception of Greenwich Village, although hardly in the manner Dodge had hoped. What had been… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“McClure was a very generous man who took an active interest in the work of his writers and truly wished to satisfy them. A… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.” — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Even a cigar company joined the rush to praise Steffens by naming a cigar after him and featuring his face on the box.” — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“He acknowledged that in the muckraking days, he would have shared their anger and quit, but his thinking had changed since the Russian Revolution.… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Logic doesn’t work in human relations, I guess,” he told Ella. “I try to understand myself as I tried to understand the bosses in… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“Being with Steffens is to me like flashes of clear light; it is as if I see him, and myself, and the world, with… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
