Book
The Americanization of Edward Bok
- Published
- 1920
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 316
- Words
- 126023
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940412.The_Americanization_of_Edward_Bok?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_35
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography charmingly chronicles the life of Edward Bok, the longtime editor of The Ladies Home Journal and a noted philanthropist. Bok wrote of his eventful life, "Every life has some interest and significance; mine, perhaps, a special one. Here was a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education was extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by curious decree of fate, he was destined to write, for a period of years, to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor. . . ." Perhaps Bok's success was due to his willingness to champion progressive causes to the wide readership of The Ladies Home Journal. Bok advocated women's suffrage, saving the environment, public sex education, education on prenatal care and children's health, and pacifism.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781775413738
- ISBN-10
- 177541373X
Tags
Award Winners-Pulitzer PrizeBokEditorHistoryMagazinePhilanthropyUnited States of America