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Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities."My purpose was . . . to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride."

According to Steffens, what was the purpose of muckraking journalism?