Includes index.

Complete in one volume.

Part I. A boy on horseback. I. When I was an angel -- II. My savage stage -- III. A miserable, merry Christmas -- IV. A boy on horseback -- V. The sporting age -- VI. A painter and a page -- VII. The Neely farm -- VIII. A prince and a cowboy -- IX. I get religion -- X. I become a hero, save a life -- XI. I get a colt to break in -- XII. I become a drunkard -- XIII. Napoleon -- XIV. All through with heroism -- XV. Preparing for college -- XVI. I go to college -- XVII. I become a student -- XVIII. Berlin: philosophy and music -- XIX. Heidelberg: there is no ethics -- XX. Munich: there are no artists XXI. Leipzig: music, science, love -- XXII. Over the alps to Paris -- Paris, London - home.

Part II. Seeing New York first. I. I become a reporter -- II. Wall Street -- III. Bulls and bears -- IV. The police -- V. Clubs, clubbers, and clubbed -- VI. Dr. Parkhurst's vice crusade -- The underworld -- VIII. Bosses: political and financial -- IX. The ghetto -- X. The Lexow police investigation -- XI. Roosevelt and reform -- XII. Schmittberger: an honest policemen -- XIII. Saving Schmittberger -- XIV. I make a crime wave -- XV. I inherit a fortune -- XVI. I become a capitalist -- XVII. Remaking a newspaper -- XVIII. A happy newspaper staff -- XIX. Getting old Bill Devery -- XX. The Cuban War and T.R. -- XXI. Colonel Roosevelt as governor.

Part III. Muckraking. I. From newspaper to magazine -- II. St. Louis, a city inside out -- III. The shame of Minneapolis -- IV. I achieve fame and something better -- V. The shamelessness of St. Louis -- VI. Pittsburgh: hell with the lid lifted -- VII. Philadelphia: a defeated people -- VIII. The dying boss -- IX. Chicago: an example of reform -- X. New York: good government -- XI. Cos Cob: an art colony -- XII. The shame of the states: Missouri -- XIII.Illinois: the progressive movement -- XIV. Wisconsin and Bob La Follette -- XV. Rhode Island: The good old American stock -- XVI. Ohio: a tale of two cities -- XVII. The city on the hill -- XVIII. Cincinnati and Boss Cox -- XIX. Some theories: big business and privileged business -- XX. New Jersey: a trust factory -- XXI. T.R. as president -- XXII. The president is shaved -- XXIII. Ben Lindsey: the kids' judge -- XXIV. Muckraking myself - a little -- XXV. Life insurance -- XXVI. Making the "American magazine" -- XXVII. Timber frauds in Oregon -- XXVIII. San Francisco: a labor government -- XXIX. How hard it is to keep things wrong -- XXX. Los Angeles and the apple -- XXXI. Free-lancing in Washington, D.C. -- XXXII. Wall Street again -- XXXIII. Cubs: Walter Lippmann, for example -- XXXIV. A successful failure -- XXXV. The muck I raked in Boston -- XXXVI. "Boston 1915" -- XXXVII. Principals and heelers.

Part IV. Revolution. I. Playing with reds and liberals in New York -- II. Experimenting with philanthropy and education -- III. Seeing Europe with business men - Greenwich Village -- IV. Dynamite -- V. Settling with Dynamiters' case. an experiment with "big, bad men" -- VI. The churches decide against Christianity -- VII. I become a goat -- VIII. Europe: a procession of nations marching to war -- IX. Mexico: the first revolution -- X. Carranza and Madero -- XI. Wilson and Mexico -- XII. To Russia: a second revolution -- XIII. The Russian revolution -- XIV. Kerenski -- XV. Kerenski to Wilson -- XVI. Preparing for peace -- XVII. The peacemaker -- XVIII. The Bullitt mission to Moscow -- XIX. The peace that was no peace -- XX. Mussolini -- XXI. Experimental Europe -- XXII. A European view of America.

Part V. Seeing America at last. I. The Dynamiters again -- II. The new United States -- III. Prohibition: a hang-over -- IV. Prophecy -- V. Falling Out of Bed.

"From these pages emerges a portrait of Steffens the man which is as meaningful as his accomplishments as reporter and reformer: a bold and humane pilgrim who so loved his countrymen that he was never able to condemn them; and who after forty years of knowing the worst of everybody and everything ended his career as he began it - with an unclouded mind, still ready to believe." - From book jacket.

"Lincoln Steffens, in full Joseph Lincoln Steffens, was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and a leading figure among the writers whom U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt called muckrakers. In 1901, after becoming managing editor of McClure’s Magazine, he began to publish the influential articles later collected as The Shame of the Cities (1904), a work closer to a documented sociological case study than to a sensational journalistic exposé. The Mexican Revolution (1910–20) and the Russian Revolution of 1917 turned Steffens’s attention from reform to revolution, and he supported many communist activities but refused identification with any party or doctrine." - Britannica.com.