| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
920.5 Whi |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
920.5 Whi |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
White, William Allen |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Autobiography of William Allen White |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
William Allen White |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Macmillan Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1946 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
669 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Awards:Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1947 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
At the time of his death in 1944, William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, was a national celebrity, proclaimed one of the truly great Americans of his age. Life magazine called him "a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." During his career White had managed to expand his circle of influence far beyond Emporia Kansas to include most of the nation. By the end of his life he had become a nationally acclaimed journalist and author of biographies, novels, and short stories. He was also widely known for his shrewd commentary on contemporary events in the national media. An influential Republican political leader, he helped found the Progressive party and was a longtime advocate of social reform and individual rights. But what endeared him most to his contemporaries was that, in spite of national fame, he remained first and foremost a small-town newspaperman. First published posthumously in 1946, White's Autobiography was immediately hailed as a classic portrait, not simply of White himself, but of the men and women who transformed America from an agrarian society to a powerful industrial nation in the years before World War I. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
34006 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
White, William Allen |
| Dates associated with a name |
1868-1944 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Journalists |
| Source of heading or term |
Biography |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Progressivism (United States politics) |
| Source of heading or term |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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