The Americanization of Edward Bok 9. 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. | Take a fresh cigar said the President after a while. That doesn t seem to burn well. You will get one like that once in a while although I am careful about my cigars. No thanks Mr. President Bok said hurriedly. It s I not the cigar. Well prove it to me with another was the quick rejoinder as he held out his case and in another minute a match again crackled. There is only one thing worse than a bad smoke and that is an office-seeker chuckled the President. Bok couldn t prove that the cigars were bad naturally. So smoke that cigar he did to the bitter end and it was bitter In fifteen minutes his head and stomach were each whirling around and no more welcome words had Bok ever heard than when the President said Well suppose we go in. Halford and I have a day s work ahead of us yet. The President went to work. Bok went to bed. He could not get there quick enough and he didn t--that is not before he had experienced that same sensation of which Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote he never could understand he said why young authors found so much trouble in getting into the magazines for his first trip to Europe was not a day old before without even the slightest desire or wish on his part he became a contributor to the Atlantic The next day and for days after Bok smelled tasted and felt that presidential cigar A few weeks afterward Bok was talking after dinner with the President at a hotel in New York when once more the cigar-case came out and was handed to Bok. No thank you Mr. President was the instant reply as visions of his night in the White House came back to him. I am like the man from the West who was willing to try anything once. And he told the President the story of the White House cigar. The editor decided to follow General Harrison s discussion of American affairs by giving his readers a glimpse of foreign politics and he fixed upon Mr. Gladstone as the one figure abroad to write for him. He sailed for England visited Hawarden Castle and proposed to Mr. Gladstone .
