The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after /
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| Author / Creator: | Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930. |
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| Imprint: | Waiheke Island : Floating Press, ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (604 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11199039 |
Table of Contents:
- Title; 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 SelfEducation; IV A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage; V Going to the Theatre with Longfellow; VI Phillips Brooks's Books and Emerson's Mental Mist; 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, "" And Entering Scribner's; XI The Chances for Success; XII Baptism Under Fire; XIII Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes.
- XIV Last Years in New YorkXV 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 Work; 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 Lecturer; XXIX An Excursion into the Feminine Nature.
- XXX Cleaning Up the PatentMedicine and Other EvilsXXXI 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.