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Robert La Follette

He fought the alliance between corporations and political bosses, to take back government for farmers, workers, and consumers.

One day in July, 1904, Lincoln Steffens, the great muckraking reporter of McClure’s Magazine , appeared quietly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the trail of a big story.

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