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The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After cover

The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

Edward Bok

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#549 of 3,809 books · #248 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1921).

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.

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Publisher
The Floating Press
ISBN-13
9781775413738
Topics
Immigration and assimilationAmerican DreamPublishing career

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