The Model Man: A Life of Edward William BOK, 1863-1930

by Hans Krabbendam

Edward William Bok was the most famous Dutch-American in early twentieth-century America thanks to his thirty-year editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal, the most prestigious women's magazine of the day. This first complete coverage of Edward Bok's life places him against his ethnic background and portrays him as the spokesman for and the molder of the American middle class between 1890 and 1930. He acted as a mediator between a Victorian and a modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042014954
• ISBN13: 9789042014954
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Length: 262 Pages