
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined to write to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor - the circulation of the magazine he edited running into figures previously unheard of in periodical literature. How all this came about, how such a boy, with every disadvantage to overcome, was able, apparently, to "make good" - this possesses an interest and for some, perhaps, a value which, after all, is the only reason for any book.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- The Floating Press
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9781775413738
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Immigration and assimilationAmerican DreamPublishing career
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(1921)
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