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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerSeldes answers a letter from Harold Rugg of Columbia University's Teacher's College inviting him to give a talk at one of Rugg's lunchtime forums. Seldes writes that his dread of public speaking is such that he never accepts such invitations, but he is reluctant to say no in this case. He would prefer just to answer questions, or alternatively, as a starting off point for discussion, he could prepare a 30-minute summary of his upcoming book on Europe, "giving my conclusions regarding the situation vis-a-vis American 'defense' plans; the new 'people's democracies'; the world turn to the left; the Cominform vs. Tito; the opposition to the Marshall Plan in Marshall Plan nations; and a score of subjects about which the American press misinforms the American people."
George Seldes [1890-1995] was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author and media critic. He is best known for publishing the newsletter "In Fact" from 1940 to 1950. Seldes influenced and was greatly admired by a whole generation of journalists and activists such as Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, Nat Hentoff and Ralph Nader.
One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s. Very good .
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Mark Sullivan [1874-1952] was among the most widely respected journalists of his day. One of the original muckrakers, he became America's leading political reporter and columnist for nearly fifty years. A committed Republican, he had unequaled access to his party's leaders, including Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Harding. Between 1926 and 1935 Sullivan wrote a major work of popular history, "Our Times", a six volume work covering the period 1900-1925 when, as he saw it, America emerged onto the world stage, triumphing in the Great War and then retreating into the materialism and self-absorption of the Twenties. Probably no other nonfiction series ever sold so well and was so widely read and acclaimed or had such a lasting reputation for excellence. [Information from Dan Rather, American Heritage, May/June 1996. Rather condensed Sullivan's "Our Times" into a new one-volume edition]. Good .
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The American satirical writer Russell Baker (b.1925) worked as a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998 and hosted Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. He covered the White House, the US Congress and the US Department of State for the New York Times and wrote the nationally syndicated Observer column for the paper. The author of 17 books, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary for his Observer Columns in 1979. He was again a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his autobiography "Growing Up".
The recipient, Jean Dalrymple (1902-1998) was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville, appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing, the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski, Mary Martin, Jos Iturbi, Andre Kostalanetz, Nathan Milstein, and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943, serving as a board member, producer, and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951, Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder, commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. Fine .
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Egan writes to James B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau regretting that he and his wife are unable to accept Pond's invitation to attend actress Dorothy Sands' show.
Martin Egan [1872-1938] was an American journalist who wrote for newspapers and magazines in America and Canada and for the Associated Press in New York, London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila. He was a correspondent during the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising and the Russo-Japanese War. He edited the Manila Times from 1908 to 1913. He was personal assistant to H. P. Davison, Chairman of the American Red Cross War Council in 1917 and an aide to General Pershing in 1918. For the last twenty-five years of his life he was on the staff of banking house J. P. Morgan and Company. Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerReprint of the original 1927 edition. Fine .
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Howe writes to an unidentified committee about tickets to the committe's upcoming party in Harlem. Howe was an editor for The Living Age from 1923 to 1929 when the magazine was sold. After the sale, the new owner rehired Howe as Editor-in-Chief.
An advocacy journalist in the tradition of New England liberalism, Quincy Howe [1900-1977] helped bring food to striking miners in Harlan County, Ky in 1932; opposed restriction of immigration; and was active in prison reform. As a director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1932 to 1940, he fought against censorship. But it was in foreign policy matters that Howe drew the most attention in the thirties. A critic of dictatorships of the left and the right, he was sympathetic to the rising nationalist movements in the colonial empires of the Old World. He was a member of the left-wing American League against War and Fascism. In his writings of that time he stressed the dangers of American intervention in another world war. Very good .
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerSeldes writes to Harold Rugg about travel arrangements for a talk he is to give at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City: "The 3:30 p m train also has a bus service and I am sure the ordeal will be over by then." The first carbon copy is a letter from Rugg saying he is delighted that Seldes can meet with their luncheon group. "If you prefer to write a brief summary of the points you are making in your book on Europe, in order to provoke questions from the group, that will be fine." He goes on to ask about travel arrangements, to which Seldes' letter is a reply. The second carbon copy is of Rugg's confirmation of the arrangements.
George Seldes [1890-1995] was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author and media critic. He is best known for publishing the newsletter "In Fact" from 1940 to 1950. Seldes influenced and was greatly admired by a whole generation of journalists and activists such as Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, Nat Hentoff and Ralph Nader.
One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s. Good .
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Frankel writes to Mrs. Robert E. Sherwood, widow of the playwright: "I am, sorry to say, not the author", but as the responsible editor, he thanks her for her kind note.
Max Frankel was born in Germany in 1930 and came to the United States in 1940. He spent a long and brilliant career at the New York Times, joining the paper as a full-time reporter in 1952. After the war, he spent some time as a foreign correspondent, then served as chief Washington correspondent and head of the Washington bureau from 1968 to 1971. He was editor of the editorial page from 1977 to 1986 and executive editor of the paper from 1986 to 1994. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his coverage of Richard Nixon's trip to China. Very good .
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The journalist and "Times" of London correspondent George Washburn Smalley (1833-1916) made his name as a battlefield correspondent for the New York Tribune during the American Civil War. He went on to establish the London office of that paper, fitting in with that City's aristocratic and Tory circles. Smalley was American correspondent to the "Times" of London from 1895 to 1906. A member of the Beefsteak Club, he socialized with Carlo Pellegrini and Arthur Blouet as well as James McNeil Whistler, frequently writing about the painter's works. He supported Whistler following his libel trial with Ruskin. Fine .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerThe American writer and muckraking investigative journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) started his career with the New York Sun. Moving on, his subsequent articles for McClure's magazine exposing the conditions of public health in the U.S. earned him a reputation as a muckraker. He worked with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Ray Stannard Baker on McClure's editorial staff. Collier's hired him to prepare a series of 11 articles on patent medicine which were published as "The Great American Fraud". Although his articles led to the passing of the "Pure Food and Drug Act" in 1906, the Supreme Court later ruled that the prohibition of falsifications referred only to the ingredients in the medicine. Adams pursued the subject, wrote another series of articles and, in 1914, wrote "The Clarion", an article criticizing newspapers for printing advertisements for such medicines. Starting in the 1920's, Adams wrote several risque novels about young women "flappers" under the pseudonym of Warner Fabian. Bestsellers with Jazz Age youth, these novels freely explored the sexual urges of young women with shocking frankness. Many of these novels were subsequently made into movies. Colleen Moore starred in "Flaming Youth", Mary Astor in "Sailors' Wives", and Clara Bow in "The Wild Party". Very good .
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Raymond writes agreeing to an exchange with another publication: "We shall be very happy to send you our semi-weekly Edition in Exchange for the W. & R. We would send the Daily but for the fact that our Exchange list is already inconveniently large."
Henry Jarvis Raymond [1820-1869] was an American journalist and politician and co-founder of the New York Times. Between 1841 and 1851 he worked as a journalist and associate editor for various newspapers, including Horace Greeley's New York Tribune and James Watson Webb's Courier and Enquirer. In 1851 Raymond convinced George Jones, who had also worked at the Tribune, to become his partner and publish a new paper that would report the news in a neutral manner. They co-founded the New York Times and Raymond edited the paper until his death. Raymond was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1850 and 1851 and was elected Speaker in 1851. A member of the Whig party's northern radical anti-slavery wing, he was nominated for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1854 over Horace Greeley. He was elected and served from 1855 to 1856. Raymond has sometimes been called "the godfather of the Republican Party". He played a prominent role in the party's formation and drafted the Address to the People adopted by the Republican organizing convention in 1856. Very good .
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