| Description |
1 online resource (604 pages) |
| Note |
From a 1920 edition. |
| Summary |
Autobiography of an influential publisher and editor. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930.
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Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930. (OCoLC)fst00015335
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Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Dutch Americans -- Biography.
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Dutch Americans. (OCoLC)fst00899694
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Periodical editors. (OCoLC)fst01058064
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bok, Edward William. Americanization of Edward Bok : The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After. Auckland : The Floating Press, ©1920 |
| ISBN |
9781775413738 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Digital Editions) |
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177541373X (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Digital Editions) |
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9781775413738 (electronic bk. ;) (Mobipocket Reader) |
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177541373X (electronic bk. ;) (Mobipocket Reader) |
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