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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Agran, Edward Gale, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White, William Allen.
White, William Allen, > 1868-1944.
Emporia gazette (Emporia, Kan. : 1899)
Middle class.
Manners and customs.
Journalists.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Classes moyennes > États-Unis.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Middle class > United States.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Kansas > Emporia.
Emporia (Kan.) > Social life and customs.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Simple Points
  • Ch. 1. "Too Good a Town": White, Community, and Rhetoric
  • Ch. 2. The Progressive Promise I: Portraying the Idyllic Community
  • Ch. 3. The Progressive Promise II: Politicking for the Ideal
  • Ch. 4. Fashioning the Model American Community
  • Ch. 5. Raising Middle American Barricades: Smith, Depression, and War
  • Ch. 6. Forging a Middle American Ethos.

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