Too good a town
Subtitle: William Allen White, community, and the emerging rhetoric of middle America
By: Edward Gale Agran.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: White, William Allen, 1868-1944.; Emporia gazette (Emporia, Kan. : 1899); Journalists -- United States -- Biography.; Middle class -- United States.; Emporia (Kan.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: For Fifty Years, William Allen White, first as a reporter and later as the long-time editor of the Emporia Gazette, wrote of his small town and its Mid-American values. By tailoring his writing to the emerging urban middle class of the early twentieth century, he won his "gospel of Emporia" a nationwide audience and left a lasting impact on the way America defines itself.

Investigating White's life and his extensive writings, Edward Gale Agran explores the dynamic thought of one of America's best-read and most-respected social commentators. Agran shows clearly how White honed his style and transformed the myth of conquering the western frontier into what became the twentieth-century ideal of community building.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index.