The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870–1949) was an American author and journalist, best known for his biographies of prominent figures including The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1923), The Training of an American (1928), and The Life of Andrew Carnegie (1932). A Yale graduate (BA 1895, MA 1897), he began as a muckraking journalist at McClure's Magazine before becoming associate editor at World's Work and winning three Pulitzer Prizes: History (1921) for The Victory at Sea (co-authored), and Biography/Autobiography (1923 and 1929) for his Page works. Read more →