Heartland Utopia
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
9780700640287 (ISBN)
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William Allen White, the editor of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette, was an American institution. When he died in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commented that America had lost one of its “wisest and most beloved editors.” White understood the value of his unique brand as “The Voice of Main Street,” and would often preach his vision of the kind of nation the United States ought to be. From his view in Emporia, White’s imagined Midwestern town was a dream for the nation to strive toward. He saw himself as a pioneer sowing the seeds of a great harvest to come, and he believed that the small-town civilization he venerated exemplified what was best in America.
In Heartland Utopia, Charles Delgadillo and Jason Stacy have gathered nearly twenty-five years of White’s fiction and nonfiction, focused on his idealized Midwestern community and how this utopian vision changed over time.
Charles Delgadillo is a lecturer in history at the California State University, Pomona, and the author of Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White, published by Kansas. Jason Stacy is Distinguished Research Professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His books include Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town and Walt Whitman’s Selected Journalism.
Introduction
Part I. Rearguard Reformer
The City of Aqua Pura (1896) The Home-Coming of Colonel Hucks (1896)
The King of Boyville (1896)
A Typical Kansas Community (1897)
Patriotism and Things (1899)
The Meaning of the Fair (1899)
The Man on Horseback (1899)
The Greatest of These (1900)
Scribes and Pharisees (1905)
The Coming of the Leisure Class (1905)
Emporia and New York (1907)
A Slow Process (1907)
A Look Ahead (1910)
Standing Together (1911)
As a Town Thinketh (1913)
The Country Newspaper (1916)
The League and Things (1919)
Part II. Mid-Victorian Modern
We Who Are About to Die (1921) The Other Side of Main Street (1921)
Will They Fool Us Twice? (1921)
What’s the Matter with America? (1922)
Emporia and the Strike (1922)
Blood of the Conquerors (1923)
The Dawn of a Great Tomorrow (1923)
A Brave Man (1923)
A Holy American Day (1924)
Klanism vs. Americanism (1924)
Forward or Backward (1924)
Forward or Backward (1924)
At the Crossroads (1924)
Annihilate the Klan! (1925)
Lyon County (1926)
Al Smith, City Feller (1926)
The Country Town Issue (1928)
The Country Editor Speaks (1929)
If I Were a Dictator (1931)
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Kansas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780700640287 / 9780700640287 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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