WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE - AUTOGRAPH 01/17/1929 - HFSID 222710
Price: $80.00
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. Signature: "W.A. White/Emporia
Kansas/1-17-29", 2¾x1¾ card. Noted journalist William Allen White
(1868-1944) began his career as an editorial writer for the "Kansas City Star"
in 1890. Five years later, he purchased "The Emporia Gazette" for $3,000.
In 1896, White became a nationally known writer when his scathing editorial,
"What's the Matter With Kansas", which he did not publish locally, was
printed in newspapers in Chicago and New York. Republican national chairman Mark
Hanna had the editorial, which centered around the McKinley-Bryan campaign,
reprinted and distributed across the country, and White became a popular
champion of the Republican cause. Another of his editorials, the poignant
"Mary White", written after the death of his only daughter, became a
classic, and White would also write novels, biographies and short stories as
well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Autobiography of William Allen
White, published posthumously in 1946. Considered one of the finest
commentators on events of his day, the small town editor became an advisor
to governors and Presidents, was a friend of politicians and statesmen and was
proclaimed one of the truly great Americans of his age. White was the father
of war correspondent and author William Lindsay White, whose books include
A Journey for Margaret and They Were Expendable. Slightly soiled.
Fine condition.
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