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The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok (1863-1930) To the American woman I owe much, but to two women I owe more, My mother and my wife. And to them I dedicate this account of the boy to whom one gave birth and brought to manhood and the other blessed with all a home and family may mean. An Explanation This book was to have been written in 1914, when I foresaw some leisure to write it, for I then intended to retire from active editorship | f I Hăy mua sách ìn hợp pháp dẻ ứng hộ các Đơn vĩ luát hàn vá Dàc Tầc giá -ajN A ThuVien nline The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok 1863-1930 To the American woman I owe much but to two women I owe more My mother and my wife. And to them I dedicate this account of the boy to whom one gave birth and brought to manhood and the other blessed with all a home and family may mean. An Explanation This book was to have been written in 1914 when I foresaw some leisure to write it for I then intended to retire from active editorship. But the war came an entirely new set of duties commanded and the project was laid aside. Its title and the form however were then chosen. By the form I refer particularly to the use of the third person. I had always felt the most effective method of writing an autobiography for the sake of a better perspective was mentally to separate the writer from his subject by this device. Moreover this method came to me very naturally in dealing with the Edward Bok editor and publicist whom I have tried to describe in this book because in many respects he has had and has been a personality apart from my private self. I have again and again found myself watching with intense amusement and interest the Edward Bok of this book at work. I have in turn applauded him and criticised him as I do in this book. Not that I ever considered myself bigger or broader than this Edward Bok simply that he was different. His tastes his outlook his manner of looking at things were totally at variance with my own. In fact my chief difficulty during Edward Bok s directorship of The Ladies Home Journal was to abstain from breaking through the editor and revealing my real self. Several times I did so and each time I saw how different was the effect from that when the editorial Edward Bok had been allowed sway. Little by little I learned to subordinate myself and to let him have full rein. But no relief of my .