Damned Old Crank - A Self Portrait Of E. W. Scripps Drawn From His Unpublished Writings

Charles R. Mccabe

• Publisher: Mccabe Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473350731
• Print ISBN:
  9781406761511

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Introductory Note
• Half title
• I. A Damned Old Crank
• II. Independence for a Penny
• III. The Laziest Boy in the County
• IV. The Value of Being a Nuisance
• V. I Buck My Big Brother
• VI. Bad Habits, I: Wicked Women, etc.
• VII. Bad Habits, II: Alcohol, Nicotine, etc.
• VIII. Some Outlandish Rules for Making Money
• IX. I Kill Henry Chisholm
• X. Shooting Irons and the Blair Eye
• XI. My Toughest Customer: Myself
• XII. Undialectical Materialism
• XIII. “Whatever Is, Is Wrong”
• XIV. I Hire Some Christians
• XV. Marriage Is Work
• XVI. Letter to a Young Editor
• XVII. The High Cost of Ignorance
• XVIII. I Break with Jim Scripps
• XIX. I Buck the A. P.
• XX. I Buck the Advertisers
• XXI. The Case of Roy W. Howard
• XXII. Is Honest Journalism Possible?
• XXIII. Highbrow Scientists and the Ignorant Public
• XXIV. Plain Talk from an Old Journalist
• XXV. Muscles, Mind and Opportunity
• XXVI. Don’t Grow Old Gracefully