The Autobiography of William Allen WhiteWhite, who died in 1944, was both small-town newspaperman and national celebrity, a journalist, editor and author, popular commentator, Republican political leader and founder of the Progressive party. First published posthumously in 1946, this 2nd ed. of the Autobiography is abridged and edited for the modern reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Contents
As It Was in the Beginning | 1 |
The Story of Will Sometimes Billie | 17 |
Choose a Foster Father | 34 |
Destiny Rolls My DiceCome Seven | 47 |
A Reporter in College | 63 |
Become a Blind Leader of the Blind | 81 |
A Gilded Metropolis | 95 |
Cross the Rubicon | 109 |
The Europe Which Has Vanished | 209 |
The Battlelines Form | 215 |
Armageddon | 234 |
The Birth of a Party | 248 |
Decline and Fall | 262 |
A World Aflame | 275 |
The Peace That Passeth Understanding | 282 |
Through the Valley of the Shadow | 297 |
The New Editor and His Town | 130 |
10 | 143 |
Awaken to Fame | 148 |
At the Centurys Turn | 159 |
Discover Reform | 174 |
Happy Days | 188 |
Join a Rebellion | 203 |
Mostly Personal | 305 |
The Downhill Pull | 313 |
| 333 | |
Editorial Notes | 345 |
Selected Bibliography | 355 |
| 357 | |
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