Author: William Allen White
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: William Allen White
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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This book is a memoir of White's (1868 - 1944) experiences during World War 1 at the front line in France. He and Henry had been commissioned into the Red Cross and were sent to the front line shortly after America had entered the War. They experienced life for the French people at firsthand and were shocked by the privations and struggles of the locals. The book also contains a romance that may or may not be fictional, between a woman and two men on the same boat as them.

Author: William Allen White
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782893547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Includes 15 cartoon illustrations. This highly humorous account of two self-confessed “short, fat, bald, middle-aged, inland Americans” who decide to join the war effort all the way from Wichita having left their jobs as journalists. As they go to New York to start their sea journey eastward, they start to find out that their life is going to be much more arduous than they initially thought... “In our pockets we hold commissions from the American Red Cross. These commissions are sending us to Europe as inspectors with a view to publicity later, one to speak for the Red Cross, the other to write for it in America. We have been told by the Red Cross authorities in Washington that we shall go immediately to the front in France and that it will be necessary to have the protective colouring of some kind of an army uniform. The curtain rises on a store in 43rd Street in New York-perhaps the “Palace” or the “Hub” or the “Model” or the “Army and Navy,” where a young man is trying to sell us a khaki coat, and shirt and trousers for $17.48. And at that it seems a lot of money to pay for a rig which can be worn at most only two months. But we compromise by making him throw in another shirt and a service hat and we take the lot for $17.93 and go away holding in low esteem the “pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war” as exemplified by these military duds. In our hearts as we go off at R. U. E. will be seen a hatred for uniforms as such, and particularly for phoney uniforms that mean nothing and cost $18.00 in particular.”

Author: Edward G. Agran
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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For fifty years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his “gospel of Emporia” a nationwide audience and left a lasting impact on he way America defines itself. Investigating White’s life and his extensive writings, Edward Gale Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America’s best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth-century ideal of community building. Once a confidante of and advisor to Theodore Roosevelt, White addressed, and reflected in his work, all the great social and political oscillations of his time—urbanization and industrialism, populism, and progressivism, isolationism internationalism, Prohibition, and New Deal reform. Again and again, he asked the question “What’s the matter?” about his times and townspeople, then found the middle ground. With great care and discernment, Agran gathers the man strains of White’s messages, demonstrating one writer’s pivotal contribution to our idea of what it means to be an American.

Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: Edna Ferber
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345805798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's stunning first autobiography, in which she recounts her small-town Midwestern childhood and rise to literary fame, all amidst the backdrop of America around the turn of the 20th century. A modest girl growing up one of the only Jewish children in her Midwestern town, Edna Ferber started overcoming the odds at a young age. Pursuing work at the local newspaper as an innocent 17-year-old, she was assigned the night court shift, reporting on drugs and violence, and gradually finding her own voice in standing up to what she witnessed. As she continued to pursue writing, she recalls the various ways in which she found inspiration, leading her to publish her first books and later, So Big, which won a Pulitzer Prize and catapulted her to fame. Ferber's incredible experiences all occur during a time of pre-WWII rising anti-Semitism and the gaining power of Hitler in Europe, and the various historical and political tensions of the time color the fascinating events of her life.

Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: William Allen White
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Certain Rich Man" by William Allen White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Bessie Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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