History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0753 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Steffens and Baker
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The idea
Lincoln Steffens exposed corruption in city politics in The Shame of the Cities, and Ray Stannard Baker investigated wages and safety in the coal mines.
In practice
Steffens blaming the businessmen who fed the political machines.
Where people slip
Digital History says Steffens argued that businessmen's hunger for contracts and franchises kept the machines running. Unit four's machines had backers.
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