The Autobiography of William Allen White

by William Allen White

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931541428
Publisher:	Simon Publications
Publication date:	12/01/1946
Pages:	669
Product dimensions:	5.99(w) x 9.13(h) x 1.66(d)

Table of Contents

	Editor's Acknowledgments	vii
	Editor's Introduction	ix
1	"As It Was in the Beginning!"	1
2	The Story of Will (Sometimes Billie)	17
3	I Choose a Foster Father	34
4	Destiny Rolls My Dice--"Come Seven"	47
5	A Reporter in College	63
6	I Become a Blind Leader of the Blind	81
7	A Gilded Metropolis	95
8	I Cross the Rubicon	109
9	The New Editor and His Town	130
10	I Awaken to Fame	148
11	At the Century's Turn	159
12	I Discover Reform	174
13	Happy Days	188
14	I Join a Rebellion	203
15	The Europe Which Has Vanished	209
16	The Battlelines Form	215
17	Armageddon	234
18	The Birth of a Party	248
19	Decline and Fall	262
20	A World Aflame	275
21	The Peace That Passeth Understanding	282
22	Through the Valley of the Shadow	297
23	Mostly Personal	305
24	The Downhill Pull	313
	Biographical Notes	333
	Editorial Notes	345
	Selected Bibliography	355
	Index	357

Editorial Reviews

White, 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 c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"A crackling good read. Griffith, in slicing off fat and organizing the material more sensibly, has really made the autobiography much more accessible to modern readers. After all, White himself would have done some such editing job had he lived. . . . Griffith's introduction is informative and entertaining."—George Juergens, author of Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World and News from the White House "Compulsively readable; White knew “everyone” in his day, and he has a wonderful journalistic talent for the memorable and evocative story. . . . The book is both an important political and cultural document and a lasting example of the autobiographical art, a classic of the genre. I welcome its reissue."—Paul Boyer, Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of American Culture, Northwestern University, author of Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920

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