The Autobiography of William Allen White

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Macmillan, 1946 - Biography & Autobiography - 667 pages
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 of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." During his career White had managed to expand his circle of influence far beyond Emporia Kansas to include most of the nation. By the end of his life he had become a nationally acclaimed journalist and author of biographies, novels, and short stories. He was also widely known for his shrewd commentary on contemporary events in the national media. An influential Republican political leader, he helped found the Progressive party and was a longtime advocate of social reform and individual rights. But what endeared him most to his contemporaries was that, in spite of national fame, he remained first and foremost a small-town newspaperman. First published posthumously in 1946, White's Autobiography was immediately hailed as a classic portrait, not simply of White himself, but of the men and women who transformed America from an agrarian society to a powerful industrial nation in the years before World War I.

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Contents

As It Was in the Beginning
3
Love Comes and We Wonder Why
12
A Child Went Forth
23
Copyright

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About the author (1946)

William Allen White, Journalist and author, was born February 10, 1868 in Emporia, Kansas and died January 29, 1944 in Emporia, Kansas. White attended the College of Emporia and the University of Kansas. He worked as an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star. Shortly after his marriage to Sally Moss Lindsay the couple moved to Emporia in 1895 and White bought the Emporia Gazette. Here he would earn the nickname "The Sage of Emporia." White's editorial "To an Anxious Friend," a statement for free speech, earned him the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. White died January 29, 1944, in Emporia, after completing a chapter in his autobiography. William Lindsay completed his father's autobiography, which earned his second Pulitzer Prize.

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