Abridged and edited for the modern reader and available in paperback for the first time ever, this second edition brings back into print a classic autobiography of Middle America--an immensely readable document that enriches our understanding of Progressivism and politics, journalism, and the social history of small-town America from Reconstruction into the Roaring Twenties.

At the time of his death in 1944, William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, was a national celebrity, proclaimed one of the truly great Americans of his age. Life magazine called him "a living symbol...

Reelected because he kept us out of war, President Wilson went to war to make the world safe for democracy. A man of Calvinist fervor, intellectual conceit, obstinacy and naivete, he ultimately assisted British imperialism, French chauvinism and Japanese nationalism.

One of the most unforgettable personality of his age, a gifted writer, highly admired journalist, politician, friend of presidents, White's life history spans from the time of buffalo and wild Indians in his native Kansas to the age of FDR.

Honest, shrewd, sentimental, resolute, American primitive, this is how the author characterizes President Coolidge. The storry of the Coolidge period, a stirring drama, hangs on the undramatis and slight figure of the man who dominated the era, and by his qualities rather than by his words or deeds gave it substance and direction.

William White was an American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman throughout the United States. White became famous after purchasing his hometown newspaper and printing the editorial "What's the Matter With Kansas? This 1896 article brought him fame in the Republican Party and national recognition. He won a 1923 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial "To an Anxious Friend." White had 23 works published. Many of these works were collections of short stories, magazine articles, or speeches he gave throughout...

The distinguished Kansas editor and author gives a vivid picture of the three major cycles of our country's progress--the revolutionary cycle, the antislavery cycle, and the populist cycle--each viewed as a part of the larger cycle of democratic growth that itself has come from that development loosely termed Christian civilization. Originally published in 1925.

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