Too good a town
William Allen White, community, and the emerging rhetoric of middle America
by Edward Gale Agran
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.
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Too good a town: William Allen White, community, and the emerging rhetoric of middle America
1998, University of Arkansas Press
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1557285209 9781557285201
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index.
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