Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing

by Samuel V. Kennedy III

Samuel V. Kennedy offers the first definitive work on the magazine muckraker who became a biographer, novelist, historian, and master storyteller--Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958).

An upstate New Yorker who graduated from Hamilton College, Adams began his writing career at the legendary New York Sun. He then moved to magazines where he was a medical writer. As a muckraker, he exposed the inefficacy of patent medicines for which Americans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815627998
• ISBN13: 9780815627999
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"