"The Forgotten Man"
Speech
By: Walter H. Page
Date: June 1897
Source: Page, Walter H. "The Forgotten Man" speech. Reprinted in Page, Walter H. The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths: Being Essays Towards the Training of the Forgotten Man in the Southern States. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902, 1–3, 22–35, 47.
About the Author: Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), journalist, author, and diplomat, was born in North Carolina and graduated from Randolph-Macon College. He ran the Raleigh State Chronicle from 1883 to 1887. He left to join The Forum, a New York monthly magazine that he made a great success. In 1899, Page became a partner in the Doubleday, Page and Company publishing house and founded the World's Work magazine in 1900. He was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1913.
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