<P> He married the twenty - six - year - old socialist writer Leonore (Ella) Sophie Winter in 1924 and moved to Italy, where their son Peter was born in San Remo . Two years later they relocated to the largest art colony on the Pacific Coast, Carmel - by - the - Sea, California . Ella and Lincoln soon became controversial figures in the leftist politics of the region . When John O'Shea, one of the local artists and a friend of the couple, exhibited his study of "Mr. Steffens' soul," an image which resembled a grotesque daemon, Lincoln took a certain cynical pride in the drawing and enjoyed the publicity it generated . </P> <P> In 1934, Steffens and Winters help found the San Francisco Workers' School (later the California Labor School); Steffens also served there as an advisor . </P> <P> Steffens died of heart failure on August 9, 1936, in Carmel - by - the - Sea, California . </P> <P> "In a country where business is dominant, business men must and will corrupt a government ." (p. 417) </P>

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