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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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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
1998.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.