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The Americanization of Edward Bok; the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after.

Title: The Americanization of Edward Bok; the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after.
Author: Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
Publication: New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1923.

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Description

xxiii p., 1 ℓ., 462 p. pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) facsims.; 20 cm.

Summary

"First edition, September, 1920 ... Twenty-eighth edition, Nov. 1923."

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Contents

The first days in America -- The first job: fifty cents a week -- The hunger for self-education -- A presidential friend and a Boston pilgrimage -- Going to the theatre with Longfellow -- Phillips Brooks's books and Emerson's mental mist -- A plunge into wall street -- Starting a newspaper syndicate -- Association with Henry Ward Beecher -- The first "Woman's Page," "Literary Leaves," and entering Scribner's -- The chances for success -- Baptism under fire -- Publishing incidents and anecdotes -- Last years in New York -- Successful editorship -- First years as a woman's editor -- Eugene Field's practical jokes -- Building up a magazine -- Personality letters
Meeting a reverse or two -- A signal piece of constructive work -- An adventure in civic and private art -- Theodore Roosevelt's influence -- Theodore Roosevelt's anonymous editorial work -- The president and the boy -- The literary back-stairs -- Women's clubs and woman suffrage -- Going home with Kipling, and as a lecturer -- An excursion into the feminine nature -- Cleaning up the patent-medicine and other evils -- Adventures in civics -- A bewildered Bok -- How millions of people are reached -- A war magazine and war activities -- The end of thirty years' editorship -- The third period -- Where America fell short with me -- What I owe to America.

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