The Autobiography Of S S Mcclure

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803263732

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The Autobiography of S.S. McClure by Willa Cather Pdf

S. S. McClure was one of America?s greatest editors and publishers in the lively era of muckraking reform. He is remembered for McClure?s Magazine, which early in the twentieth century published the works of famous authors and social reformers. He was also the mentor of young Willa Cather. After leaving her position at McClure?s in 1912, Cather ghosted this graceful portrait of her former boss. ø Cather?s developing style is clear throughout The Autobiography of S. S. McClure. She goes far inside her subject to find his voice and catch the rhythms of his exciting life: his immigration from Ireland to America, his Horatio Alger?like rise from poverty and struggle to success. Cather shows the risks he took in forming the first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which gave him access to such literary masters as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. His extensive contacts were advantageous later in establishing McClure?s, the medium for muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. These famous figures, and many others, enter into The Autobiography of S. S. McClure, which was originally published in 1914, just as Cather was launching her own illustrious career as a novelist

Author : S. S. McClure
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497853893

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S. S. McClure by S. S. McClure Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

Author : Samuel Sidney McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142271683X

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My Autobiography by Samuel Sidney McClure Pdf

High quality reprint of My Autobiography by Samuel Sidney McClure.

Author : Samuel Sidney McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Investigative reporting
ISBN : UOM:39015011063222

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My Autobiography by Samuel Sidney McClure Pdf

Autobiography of S. S. McClure, an Irish-American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.

Author : Stephanie Gorton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062796660

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Citizen Reporters by Stephanie Gorton Pdf

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as “muckrakers” and “forces for evil.” The year was 1906, the president was Theodore Roosevelt—and the publication that provoked his fury was McClure’s magazine. One of the most influential magazines in American history, McClure’s drew over 400,000 readers and published the groundbreaking stories that defined the Gilded Age, including the investigation of Standard Oil that toppled the Rockefeller monopoly. Driving this revolutionary publication were two improbable newcomers united by single-minded ambition. S. S. McClure was an Irish immigrant, who, despite bouts of mania, overthrew his impoverished upbringing and bent the New York media world to his will. His steadying hand and star reporter was Ida Tarbell, a woman who defied gender expectations and became a notoriously fearless journalist. The scrappy, bold McClure's group—Tarbell, McClure, and their reporters Ray Stannard Baker and Lincoln Steffens—cemented investigative journalism’s crucial role in democracy. From reporting on labor unrest and lynching, to their exposés of municipal corruption, their reporting brought their readers face to face with a nation mired in dysfunction. They also introduced Americans to the voices of Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and many others. Tracing McClure’s from its meteoric rise to its spectacularly swift and dramatic combustion, Citizen Reporters is a thrillingly told, deeply researched biography of a powerhouse magazine that forever changed American life. It’s also a timely case study that demonstrates the crucial importance of journalists who are unafraid to speak truth to power.

Author : Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (Viscount),Samuel Sidney McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : OCLC:44771130

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Lives and Letters by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (Viscount),Samuel Sidney McClure Pdf

Author : Peter Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Investigative reporting
ISBN : UCAL:B3529376

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Success Story by Peter Lyon Pdf

Biography of S. S. McClure, an Irish-American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.

Author : S. S. Mcclure,Willa Cather
Publisher : Hva Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1948697025

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My Autobiography by S. S. Mcclure,Willa Cather Pdf

Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) was born in Ireland, and emigrated with his brothers and widowed mother to Indiana when he was nine. He grew up on a farm and worked as a farm hand, butcher, peddler, messboy and school teacher before moving first to Boston, then to New York City where he founded America's first newspaper syndicate. There he published Jack London, Stephen Crane, and Upton Sinclair, among many others. McClure later expanded with McClure's Magazine, one of the most important magazines in American literature and journalism. After leaving the magazine he toured abroad frequently, but New York City remained his home. He is buried next to his wife in Galesburg, Illinois. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was born in Virginia, and later moved with her family to Nebraska. After college she worked as a magazine editor in Pittsburgh. Cather then moved to New York City to join the widely popular McClure's Magazine. She rose to become one of the most powerful editors in America, working with such literary greats as Joseph Conrad, A.E. Houseman and William Butler Yeats. After leaving McClure's to pursue her career as a writer, Cather went on to become an award-winning American author, of whom Publishers Weekly said, "many readers dearly love." She remained in New York City for the rest of her life.

Author : Harold S. Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400872305

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McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers by Harold S. Wilson Pdf

McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American scene (Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle) and fearlessly championed the important causes of the day (from betterment of conditions in the coal mines to antitrust measures). This is the story of McClure's lifespan, beginning in Ohio when Samuel McClure gathered around himself a talented group of editors and writers (among them Willa Cather. Frank Norris. Stephen Crane, O. Henry. Hamlin Garland) and continuing to the magazine's last days in New York City. The growing concern of the staff about American urban and commercial life led to such exposes as Ida Tarbell's History of Standard Oil and Lincoln Steffens' Shame of the Cities. McClure's was a channel for those determined to combat the ills of society, and one of the first voices of the emerging Progressive Party. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lincoln Steffens
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486147666

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The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens Pdf

Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.

Author : Gerald L. Gutek,Patricia A. Gutek
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817318970

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Bringing Montessori to America by Gerald L. Gutek,Patricia A. Gutek Pdf

Bringing Montessori to America tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States.

Author : Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085522

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All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography by Ida M. Tarbell Pdf

This is an autobiography of Ida Minerva Tarbell, an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Clayton Antitrust Act.

Author : S. S. (Samuel Sidney) McClure
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290927235

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Obstacles to Peace, by S. S. McClure by S. S. (Samuel Sidney) McClure Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Robert M. Crunden
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0252011678

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Ministers of Reform by Robert M. Crunden Pdf

Ministers of Reform vividly depicts the spiritual odyssey of an entire generation and shows how Protestant roots and a common "climate of creativity" nurtured a host of Progressive leaders from all walks of life. Crunden demonstrates that the same spirit of nnovation and moral rectitude so typical of the era's politics also characterized its artistic endeavors.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080326349X

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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science by Willa Cather Pdf

This controversial biography of the founder of the Christian Science church was serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1907-8 and published as a book the next year. It disappeared almost overnight and has been difficult to find ever since. Although a Canadian mewspaperwoman named Georgine Milmine collected the material and was credited as the author, The Life Of Mary Baker G. Eddy was actually written by Willa Cather, an editor at McClure's at that time. In his introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Stouck reveals new evidence of Cather's authorship of The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy. He discusses her fidelity to facts and her concern with psychology and philosophy that would take creative form later on. Indeed, this biography contains "some of the finest portrait sketches and reflections on human nature that Willa Cather would ever write."