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The article on the “Old Governor’s Mansion Returned to the People” (May 15) by Michele and Tom Grimm failed to mention that this Victorian showplace was also the boyhood home of Lincoln Steffens, the magazine editor and author of “The Shame of the Cities,” 1904, and “Upbuilders,” 1909.
June 12, 1988
Travel & Experiences
For ‘edu-tainment’ and tourism, boosters in Illinois want rides and a 30-story statue.
March 22, 2004
California
I want to thank your writer Tim Waters for his splendid article regarding “Silencing an Outspoken Publisher.”
May 31, 1990
Politics
Civil rights, labor groups rally on National Mall
Oct. 2, 2010
“So, you’ve been over into Russia,” Bernard Baruch said to the muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, recently returned from a fact-finding trip to the new Soviet Union.
May 7, 2005
World & Nation
Better here than there
Feb. 23, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
The journalist makes sense of the 2008 economic ‘meltdown’ in the U.S. and finds fault with Republicans and Democrats alike.
Oct. 18, 2010
Books
Book review: ‘The Great American Stickup’ by Robert Scheer
Military: A memorial will honor female veterans. Former servicewomen of the county will attend the dedication.
Oct. 13, 1997
SECRETS: The CIA’s War at Home by Angus Mackenzie; University of California Press $26, 242 pages
Dec. 24, 1997