In his 1903 newspaper article, Journalist (and one of the leading muckrakers of his time) Lincoln Steffens blew the whistle on a corrupt Mayor Doc Ames. The expose revealed that Ames (and his corrupt...
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6 1866 - August 9 1936), the American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking