# The Shame of the Cities

Author: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54710

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Shame+of+the+Cities+Steffens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This is not a book. It is a collection of articles reprinted from _McClure’s Magazine_. Done as journalism, they are journalism still, and no further pretensions are set up for them in their new dress. This classification may seem pretentious enough; certainly it would if I should confess what claims I make for my profession. But no matter about that; I insist upon the journalism. And there is my justification for separating from the bound volumes of the magazine and republishing, practically without re-editing, my accounts as a reporter of the shame of American cities. They were written with a purpose, they were published serially with a purpose, and they are reprinted now together to fu...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shame-of-the-cities-54710/chapters/16/index.md)