The Americanization of Edward Bok

The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

Edward William Bok

Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiography of an influential publisher and editor.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

An Explanation   With Regard to This Edition   Subject Index

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1921
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

An Introduction of Two Persons

1. The First Days in America
2. The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week
3. The Hunger for Self-Education
4. A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage
5. Going to the Theatre with Longfellow
6. Phillips Brooks’s Books and Emerson’s Mental Mist
7. A Plunge into Wall Street
8. Starting a Newspaper Syndicate
9. Association with Henry Ward Beecher
10. The First “Woman’s Page,” “Literary Leaves,” and Entering Scribner’s
11. The Chances for Success
12. Baptism Under Fire
13. Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes
14. Last Years in New York
15. Successful Editorship
16. First Years as a Woman’s Editor
17. Eugene Field’s Practical Jokes
18. Building Up a Magazine
19. Personality Letters
20. Meeting a Reverse or Two
21. A Signal Piece of Constructive Work
22. An Adventure in Civic and Private Art
23. Theodore Roosevelt’s Influence
24. Theodore Roosevelt’s Anonymous Editorial Work
25. The President and the Boy
26. The Literary Back-Stairs
27. Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage
28. Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer
29. An Excursion into the Feminine Nature
30. Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils
31. Adventures in Civics
32. A Bewildered Bok
33. How Millions of People Are Reached
34. A War Magazine and War Activities
35. At The Battle-Fronts in the Great War
36. The End of Thirty Years’ Editorship
37. The Third Period
38. Where America Fell Short with Me
39. What I Owe to America

Edward William Bok: Biographical Data
The Expression of a Personal Pleasure