{"product_id":"2940013652743","title":"THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Explanation\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction of Two Persons\u003cbr\u003eI. The First Days in America\u003cbr\u003eII. The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Hunger for Self-Education\u003cbr\u003eIV. A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003eV. Going to the Theatre with Longfellow\u003cbr\u003eVI. Phillips Brooks's Books and Emerson's Mental Mist\u003cbr\u003eVII. A Plunge into Wall Street\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Starting a Newspaper Syndicate\u003cbr\u003eIX. Association with Henry Ward Beecher\u003cbr\u003eX. The First \"Woman's Page,\" \"Literary Leaves,\" and Entering Scribner's\u003cbr\u003eXI. The Chances for Success\u003cbr\u003eXII. Baptism Under Fire\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Last Years in New York\u003cbr\u003eXV. Successful Editorship\u003cbr\u003eXVI. First Years as a Woman's Editor\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Eugene Field's Practical Jokes\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. Building Up a Magazine\u003cbr\u003eXIX. Personality Letters\u003cbr\u003eXX. Meeting a Reverse or Two\u003cbr\u003eXXI. A Signal Piece of Constructive Work\u003cbr\u003eXXII. An Adventure in Civic and Private Art\u003cbr\u003eXXIII. Theodore Roosevelt's Influence\u003cbr\u003eXXIV. Theodore Roosevelt's Anonymous Editorial Work\u003cbr\u003eXXV. The President and the Boy\u003cbr\u003eXXVI. The Literary Back-Stairs\u003cbr\u003eXXVII. Women's Clubs and Woman Suffrage\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer\u003cbr\u003eXXIX. An Excursion into the Feminine Nature\u003cbr\u003eXXX. Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils\u003cbr\u003eXXXI. Adventures in Civics\u003cbr\u003eXXXII. A Bewildered Bok\u003cbr\u003eXXXIII. How Millions of People Are Reached\u003cbr\u003eXXXIV. A War Magazine and War Activities\u003cbr\u003eXXXV. At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War\u003cbr\u003eXXXVI. The End of Thirty Years' Editorship\u003cbr\u003eXXXVII. The Third Period\u003cbr\u003eXXXVIII. Where America Fell Short with Me\u003cbr\u003eXXXIX. What I Owe to America\u003cbr\u003eEdward William Bok: Biographical Data\u003cbr\u003eThe Expression of a Personal Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction of Two Persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOUND THE SOURCE AND MAINSPRING OF SOME OF THE\u003cbr\u003eEFFORTS OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IN HIS LATER YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong an island in the North Sea, five miles from the Dutch Coast,\u003cbr\u003estretches a dangerous ledge of rocks that has proved the graveyard of\u003cbr\u003emany a vessel sailing that turbulent sea. On this island once lived a\u003cbr\u003egroup of men who, as each vessel was wrecked, looted the vessel and\u003cbr\u003emurdered those of the crew who reached shore. The government of the\u003cbr\u003eNetherlands decided to exterminate the island pirates, and for the job\u003cbr\u003eKing William selected a young lawyer at The Hague.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I want you to clean up that island,\" was the royal order. It was a\u003cbr\u003eformidable job for a young man of twenty-odd years. By royal\u003cbr\u003eproclamation he was made mayor of the island, and within a year, a court\u003cbr\u003eof law being established, the young attorney was appointed judge; and in\u003cbr\u003ethat dual capacity he \"cleaned up\" the island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe young man now decided to settle on the island, and began to look\u003cbr\u003earound for a home. It was a grim place, barren of tree or living green\u003cbr\u003eof any kind; it was as if a man had been exiled to Siberia. Still,\u003cbr\u003eargued the young mayor, an ugly place is ugly only because it is not\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful. And beautiful he determined this island should be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day the young mayor-judge called together his council. \"We must have\u003cbr\u003etrees,\" he said; \"we can make this island a spot of beauty if we will!\"\u003cbr\u003eBut the practical seafaring men demurred; the little money they had was\u003cbr\u003eneeded for matters far more urgent than trees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very well,\" was the mayor's decision--and little they guessed what the\u003cbr\u003ewords were destined to mean--\"I will do it myself.\" And that year he\u003cbr\u003eplanted one hundred trees, the first the island had ever seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Too cold,\" said the islanders; \"the severe north winds and storms will\u003cbr\u003ekill them all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Then I will plant more,\" said the unperturbed mayor. And for the fifty\u003cbr\u003eyears that he lived on the island he did so. He planted trees each year;\u003cbr\u003eand, moreover, he had deeded to the island government land which he\u003cbr\u003eturned into public squares and parks, and where each spring he set out\u003cbr\u003eshrubs and plants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoistened by the salt mist the trees did not wither, but grew\u003cbr\u003eprodigiously. In all that expanse of turbulent sea--and only those who\u003cbr\u003ehave seen the North Sea in a storm know how turbulent it can be--there\u003cbr\u003ewas not a foot of ground on which the birds, storm-driven across the\u003cbr\u003ewater-waste, could rest in their flight. Hundreds of dead birds often\u003cbr\u003ecovered the surface of the sea. Then one day the trees had grown tall\u003cbr\u003eenough to look over the sea, and, spent and driven, the first birds came\u003cbr\u003eand rested in their leafy shelter. 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