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| 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 |
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Alan Fooks
reviewed The Autobiography of William Allen White on December 20, 2016 The Autobiography of William Allen White
Endless journalistic citations of William Allen White irritated me in my 60s teens enough never to want to read it, but now I see its virtue: for anyone who wants a feeling for mainstream progressive political culture in the United States (which was, until Woodrow Wilson, an almost exclusively GOP affair), this is spectacular. It's also important as a description of the difference between "settled" midwestern states east of and on the Mississippi in post-Civil War culture and the frontier but not wild west states. WAW knew Teddy Roosevelt well, got to know McKinley, Mark Hanna, Bryan, Jane Addams, Taft, and Harding. His judgment of men and women is superb.
WAW wrote the original "what's the matter with Kansas" editorial in the 1896s, which was a complaint about high taxes driving away business and jobs from his state - about as far from that idiot Thomas Frank as you can get.
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Add The Autobiography of William Allen White, 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. . . . Gr, The Autobiography of William Allen White to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The Autobiography of William Allen White, 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. . . . Gr, The Autobiography of William Allen White to your collection on WonderClub |
