The Americanization of Edward Bok

by Edward W. Bok

• An Explanation
• With Regard to This Edition
• An Introduction of Two Persons

• Chapter 1: The First Days in America
• Chapter 2: The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week
• Chapter 3: The Hunger for Self-Education
• Chapter 4: A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage
• Chapter 5: Going to the Theatre with Longfellow
• Chapter 6: Phillips Brooks’s Books and Emerson’s Mental Mist
• Chapter 7: A Plunge into Wall Street
• Chapter 8: Starting a Newspaper Syndicate
• Chapter 9: Association with Henry Ward Beecher
• Chapter 10: The First “Woman’s Page,” “Literary Leaves,” and Entering Scribner’s
• Chapter 11: The Chances for Success
• Chapter 12: Baptism Under Fire
• Chapter 13: Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes
• Chapter 14: Last Years in New York
• Chapter 15: Successful Editorship
• Chapter 16: First Years as a Woman’s Editor
• Chapter 17: Eugene Field’s Practical Jokes
• Chapter 18: Building Up a Magazine
• Chapter 19: Personality Letters
• Chapter 20: Meeting a Reverse or Two
• Chapter 21: A Signal Piece of Constructive Work
• Chapter 22: An Adventure in Civic and Private Art
• Chapter 23: Theodore Roosevelt’s Influence
• Chapter 24: Theodore Roosevelt’s Anonymous Editorial Work
• Chapter 25: The President and the Boy
• Chapter 26: The Literary Back-Stairs
• Chapter 27: Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage
• Chapter 28: Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer
• Chapter 29: An Excursion into the Feminine Nature
• Chapter 30: Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils
• Chapter 31: Adventures in Civics
• Chapter 32: A Bewildered Bok
• Chapter 33: How Millions of People Are Reached
• Chapter 34: A War Magazine and War Activities
• Chapter 35: At The Battle-Fronts in the Great War
• Chapter 36: The End of Thirty Years’ Editorship
• Chapter 37: The Third Period
• Chapter 38: Where America Fell Short with Me
• Chapter 39: What I Owe to America

• The Expression of a Personal Pleasure