R. Alton Lee

Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

His admirers called him the "Barnum of Books" and the "Voltaire of Kansas" because of his ability to bring culture and education to the people. R. Alton Lee brings to life Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889¿1951), a writer-publisher-entrepreneur who was one of America's most significant publishers and editorialists of the twentieth century. His company published a record 500,000,000 copies of 2,580 titles and was second only to the U.S. Government Printing Office in the quantity of publications it produced. Lee details Haldeman-Julius's family origins in Russia and his formative years in Philadelphia, where he learned the book trade. As a writer and editor for the Social Democrat, Sunday Call, and Western Comrade, Haldeman-Julius was already well known by the time he launched his own publishing company. Haldeman-Julius knew, was nurtured by, and published writers such as Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Carl...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496202901
• Artikelnr.: 50534449

Autorenporträt

R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Odessa to Fin de Siecle Philadelphia 
1. Forces That Shaped Him
2. The Beckoning World
3. Girard, Kansas
4. Little Blue Books
5. A Cornucopia of Books and Events
6. The Great Depression
7. Resurrection
Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index