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The Americanization of Edward Bok 1

The Americanization of Edward Bok 1. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | I Háy mua sách in pháp dé ng các Dan vi luát han vá các Tic giá -o -r Ky 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 life was .