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David Graham Phillips (1867–1911)

Autor(a) de Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

32 Works 220 Membros 4 Reviews

About the Author

David Graham Phillips, 1867-1911 David Graham Phillips was born on October 31, 1867; he was an American journalist of the muckraker tradition and novelist. Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (now DePauw University) -- following mostrar mais which he received a degree from Princeton University in 1887. Phillips then worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving on to New York City where he was employed as a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the New York World until 1902. In his spare time, Phillips wrote a novel, The Great God Success, that was published in 1901. In January 1911, Phillips was shot outside the Princeton Club at Gramercy Park in New York City. The killer was a Harvard-educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough who thought that one of Phillips's heroines was modeled after his sister. The killer then also shot himself in the head. David Graham Phillips is interred in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de David Graham Phillips

The Plum Tree (1905) 15 cópias
The Treason of the Senate (2012) 13 cópias
The Second Generation (1907) 12 cópias
The Great God Success (2012) 11 cópias
The Price She Paid (1974) 10 cópias
The Cost (2012) 10 cópias
The Social Secretary (1972) 9 cópias
The Grain of Dust (2006) 9 cópias
The Deluge (2012) 8 cópias
Light-Fingered Gentry (2010) 7 cópias
White Magic (2015) 7 cópias
The Fortune Hunter (2012) 7 cópias
The Conflict (2012) 7 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Phillips, David Graham
Outros nomes
Graham, John (pseudonym)
Data de nascimento
1867-10-31
Data de falecimento
1911-01-24
Local de enterro
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Madison, Indiana, USA
Local de falecimento
Princeton Club, Gramercy Park, New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Madison, Indiana, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Princeton University (College of New Jersey)
Ocupação
journalist
novelist
Muckraker
Organizações
The Sun (New York)
New York World
Pequena biografia
Shot to death outside the Princeton Club in New York City by a young musician who accused him of having cast literary slurs on his family in Phillip's novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig

Membros

Resenhas

Really cute, quick read. Set a hundred years ago or so. Young lady decides to seek employment in Washington, DC, as a social secretary to a newly arrived senator's family. The family are all rather fish out of water but she sorts them out, becomes best friends with the mother, and reluctantly falls in love in the meantime. I enjoyed this a lot!
 
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Alishadt | 1 outra resenha | Feb 25, 2023 |
My spouse found an old newspaper from 1906 that listed books one might choose to give as Christmas gifts. This book was one of them, and eventually I found a copy of it. I believe I got this book from the Internet Archive. The kindle book comes from OCR on the book scan with little or no subsequent editing. Thus, there are lots of errors in the formatting. Still, the book was easily readable.

The book is essentially the diary of a young woman who was well connected with Washington, D.C. society, but who had fallen on hard times and who had to take a job (in preference to marrying an ass). A couple of her influential friends hooked her up with a new senator from the sticks and his wife. She set about a campaign to make the two of them "factors" in the Washington social scene. As is the case today, Washington is pretty much ruled by wealth and influence. It's about as corrupt a place as you can find.

I'm not sure if people were quite as stupid back then as what we have in today's Congress (Rand Paul is dumb as shit, and is considered a possible future President), but that part isn't really dealt with in this book. Whatever, it was an OK read, albeit not one I'd have missed not ever having read.
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lgpiper | 1 outra resenha | Jun 21, 2019 |
I'm hard pressed to figure out how to rate this book, in some ways, it's quite good, in others, rather tedious. It could use some serious editing, as the author goes on a bit much. The story itself is interesting and keeps one's attention pretty well. The social attitudes that drive the story would no longer hold sway today. I could be wrong, of course, but I doubt very many people today would think that the mere fact of one's having been born out of wedlock automatically means that one is morally tainted. Yet that is the situation with Susan Lennox. Everyone around her pretty much assumed she had the moral inclinations towards the gutter merely because of the situation of her birth. She doesn't see it that way, however, so strives through a series of trials, towards total independence. She wanted to be her own mistress, so to speak, not the kept woman, either as spouse, mistress, or one-night stand of men.

The book is somewhat flawed by Phillips' constant preaching against conventional morality, his flawed observations on the human condition and so forth. Phillips seems to think he's the only smart person in the room and that those not subscribing to his points of view are delusional fools. It's not uncommon to find jerks within the pages of literature, but one doesn't generally discover that the real jerk in the pages is the author himself.

Still, it was an interesting take on the times, times which in some ways aren't all that different from our own. The plutocrats are still fleecing the rest of us for their personal benefit. The church is still not practicing what it preaches.
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lgpiper | Jun 21, 2019 |
Harvey Sayler is a poor but idealistic lawyer forced to accept a political appointment by the corrupt boss of his party. His moral compromises are skillfully portrayed as step by step he transforms himself, through careful manipulation of political greed and pride, into the leader of his party and maker of presidents. A rousing indictment of corporate control of American politics... a century ago.
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loomishouse | Oct 19, 2010 |

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Obras
32
Membros
220
Popularidade
#101,715
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
4
ISBNs
157

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