Nonfiction work

By: William Allen White

Date: 1906

Source: White, William Allen. Emporia and New York. New York: Phillips, 1906.

About the Author: William Allen White (1868–1944) was born in Kansas, where he spent most of his life. He became nationally known as editor of the Emporia Gazette and as an author and contributor to national magazines and newspapers. White wrote of the virtues of small-town America while taking an active role in national Progressive politics. A close friend and supporter of President Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–1909), White was in many ways a prototypical Progressive. An old-stock Protestant of the solid middle class, he was optimistic about the country's future and cognizant of the need for reform to ensure that the American promise was available to all citizens.

Introduction

The beginning of the twentieth century...