The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined to write to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor - the circulation of the magazine he edited running into figures previously unheard of in periodical literature. How all this came about, how such a boy, with every disadvantage to overcome, was able, apparently, to "e;make good"e; - this possesses an interest and for some, perhaps, a value which, after all, is the only reason for any book.
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- THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK
- Contents
- An Explanation
- An Introduction of Two Persons
- I - The First Days in America
- II - The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week
- III - The Hunger for Self-Education
- IV - A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage
- V - Going to the Theatre with Longfellow
- VI - Phillips Brooks's Books and Emerson's Mental …
- VII - A Plunge into Wall Street
- VIII - Starting a Newspaper Syndicate
- IX - Association with Henry Ward Beecher
- X - The First "Woman's Page," "Literary Leaves," A…
- XI - The Chances for Success
- XII - Baptism Under Fire
- XIII - Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes
- XIV - Last Years in New York
- XV - Successful Editorship
- XVI - First Years as a Woman's Editor
- XVII - Eugene Field's Practical Jokes
- XVIII - Building Up a Magazine
- XIX - Personality Letters
- XX - Meeting a Reverse or Two
- XXI - A Signal Piece of Constructive Work
- XXII - An Adventure in Civic and Private Art
- XXIII - Theodore Roosevelt's Influence
- XXIV - Theodore Roosevelt's Anonymous Editorial Wo…
- XXV - The President and the Boy
- XXVI - The Literary Back-Stairs
- XXVII - Women's Clubs and Woman Suffrage
- XXVIII - Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecture…
- XXIX - An Excursion into the Feminine Nature
- XXX - Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Ev…
- XXXI - Adventures in Civics
- XXXII - A Bewildered Bok
- XXXIII - How Millions of People Are Reached
- XXXIV - A War Magazine and War Activities
- XXXV - At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War
- XXXVI - The End of Thirty Years' Editorship
- XXXVII - The Third Period
- XXXVIII - Where America Fell Short with Me
- XXXIX - What I Owe to America
- Edward William Bok: Biographical Data
- The Expression of a Personal Pleasure