Lincoln Steffens Quote by Peter Hartshorn Download Open image ““Everyone, it seemed to me, ought to know about Lincoln Steffens.”” — Peter Hartshorn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lincoln Steffens
“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so… — Katherine Lowry Logan Copy Share Image
“Evil took many faces, many of them benign. It just wasn’t always apparent. Lincoln” — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
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“Lots of Lincoln people had been to Chicago, and some even to New York, but very few had any firsthand knowledge of what Europe… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything. But Lincoln felt at home with them. They all read too… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they… — Henry Ketcham Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal.” — Mark Adams 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
“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
“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto a freighter… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown west, followed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
