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"Too Good a Town" : William Allen White, Community, and the Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America /

For Fifty Years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his "gospel of Emporia"...

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Autor principal: Agran, Edward Gale, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:For Fifty Years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his "gospel of Emporia" a nationwide audience and left a lasting impact on the way America defines itself. Investigating White's life and his extensive writings, Edward Gale Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America's best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth-century ideal of community building
Descripción Física:1 online resource (274 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781610754309