Poor little rich boy (and how he made good)
By: authors, Gwen Morgan and Arthur Veysey ; cartoons by Joseph Parrish.
Contributors: Veysey, Arthur.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crossroad Communications
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Carpentersville, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
Subjects: McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955.; Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: For a half century, as reporter and literary editor for the Chicago Tribune, I talked with a parade of personages from poets to presidents. Almost all sought publicity know or thought about them. Others craved to see their names in print. Col. Robert R. McCormick was a rare exception. Although he lived in a fishbowl and was concerned with the great dramas of the world, he shunned publicity. He was a very private person. In the absence of readily available facts, speculation arose and, when the Colonel continued silent about himself, congealed into rumor and then hardened into fable and legend. Foes deliberately created and spread falsehoods. Few people sought understanding. It was inevitable that someone should undertake a biography. Perhaps no persons are better prepared to take on the challenge than Gwen Morgan and Arthur Veysey. Their years abroad as correspondents brought them hours with the Colonel in his last years and, more important, they developed their ability to seek truth. Fortunately, for the past ten years they have lived in the place the Colonel loved best, his country home, Cantigny. His interests surround them; his books are piled high before them. People associated with him come, often from distant places, to review and renew their impressions. From Cantigny, Gwen and Arthur afar asking, "What was the Colonel really like?"
They have separated fact from fiction. Skillfully and without prejudice, as all biographies should be written, they have brought out of the mist of fable and legend a living man. - Fanny Butcher
Notes: Bibliography: p. 481-484.
Includes index.