The Americanization of Edward Bok 8. 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. | Why asked the editor. Well they say it s the best stuff for girls they have ever read. They d love to know Miss Ashmead better. Here was exactly what the editor wanted but he was the author He changed the name to Ruth Ashmore and decided to let the manuscript go into the magazine. He reasoned that he would then have a month in which to see the writer he had in mind and he would show her the proof. But a month filled itself with other duties and before the editor was aware of it the composition-room wanted copy for the second installment of Side Talks with Girls. Once more the editor furnished the copy Within two weeks after the second article had been written the magazine containing the first installment of the new department appeared and the next day two hundred letters were received for Ruth Ashmore with the mail-clerk asking where they should be sent. Leave them with me please replied the editor. On the following day the mail-clerk handed him five hundred more. The editor now took two letters from the top and opened them. He never opened the third That evening he took the bundle home and told his mother of his predicament. She read the letters and looked at her son. You have no right to read these she said. The son readily agreed. His instinct had correctly interpreted the need but he never dreamed how far the feminine nature would reveal itself on paper. The next morning the editor with his letters took the train for New York and sought his friend Mrs. Isabel A. Mallon the Bab of his popular syndicate letter. Have you read this department he asked pointing to the page in the magazine. I have answered Mrs. Mallon. Very well done too it is. Who is Ruth Ashmore You are answered Edward Bok. And while it took considerable persuasion from that time on Mrs. Mallon became Ruth Ashmore the most ridiculed writer in the magazine world and yet the most helpful editor that ever conducted a department in periodical literature. For sixteen years she conducted the department
