According to Lincoln Steffans, What was the Shame of the cities !

The Shame of the Cities is a book written by American author Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904

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The Shame of the Cities is a book written by American author Lincoln Steffens. Published in 1904, it is a collection of articles which Steffens had written for McClure's Magazine. It reports on the workings of corrupt political machines in several major U.S. cities, along with a few efforts to combat them.

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c, because the american revolution was from 1765 to 1783.