Voice of the Democracy: A Critical Biography of David Graham Phillips: Journalist, Novelist, Progressive

by Louis Filler

Every aspect of the life and work of David Graham Phillips (1867 1911) seems contradictory: from his peaceful college days at Asbury (now DePauw) to his brutal murder in New York's Gramercy Park; from his genteel middle-class lifestyle to his savagery as a muckraker; from the sensational impact of his novels to their present relative neglect. Since Louis Filler views Phillips as a quintessential Progressive, he presents his subject's story against...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271005289
• ISBN13: 9780271005287
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages