McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, March, 1904
Second Impression
Copyright, 1902, 1903, by S. S. McClure Company
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Introduction; and Some Conclusions | [3] |
| Tweed Days in St. Louis | [29] |
| The Shame of Minneapolis | [63] |
| The Shamelessness of St. Louis | [101] |
| Pittsburg: A City Ashamed | [147] |
| Philadelphia: Corrupt and Contented | [193] |
| Chicago: Half Free and Fighting On | [233] |
| New York: Good Government to the Test | [279] |
INTRODUCTION; AND SOME CONCLUSIONS
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 further that same purpose, which was and is—to sound for the civic pride of an apparently shameless citizenship.