An edition of Too good a town (1998)
Too good a town
William Allen White, community, and the emerging rhetoric of middle America
By Edward Gale Agran
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Language
eng
Pages
239
Description:
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.