William Allen White

Agran, Edward Gale. "`Too Good a Town:' William Allen White and the Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America." Doc. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.

Agran, Edward Gale. "William Allen White and the Forging of Middle Class Identity in Depression America." Mid-America 73 (April-July 1991): 151-177.

Agran, Edward Gale. "William Allen White's Small Town Metaphor: A Literary Prescription For Progressive America." Kansas History 17 (Autumn 1994): 162-177. A close look at White's fiction, especially his novels (The Real Issue, In Our Town, and A Certain Rich Man), reveals the frequent use of the idealized, middle-western small town as a rhetorical devise through which to preach reform.

A Bibliography of William Allen White. Two volumes. Emporia: Kansas State Teachers College, 1969. Letters, newspaper clipping, manuscripts, and other items that make up the White collection at the ESU Library.

Brooks, Patrick Alan. "William Allen White: A Study of Values." Doc. diss., University of Minnesota, 1969. States that White "preached to his . . . flock with folksy simplicity that seemed to belie his intelligence and sophistication."

Carey, James E. "William Allen White and Dan D. Casement on Government Regulation." Agricultural History 33 (January 1959): 16-21.

Clough, Frank C. William Allen White of Emporia. New York: Whittlesey House, 1941.

Dubbert, Joe L. "William Allen White's American Adam." Western American Literature 7 (Winter 1973): 271-278. Early 20th century progressivism seen through White's writings, especially A Certain Rich Man and In the Heart of a Fool.

Folkerts, Jean Lange. "William Allen White's Anti-Populist Rhetoric as an Agenda-Setting Technique." Journalism Quarterly 60 (Spring 1983): 28-34. His agenda, according to Folkerts, was to "advance business values and bring prosperity to his home state."

Griffith, Sally Foreman. Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Completed as a doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins University, 1985.

Hinshaw, David. A Man From Kansas: The Story of W. A. White. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945.

Huey, Gary. "The Kansas Day Club and the Antecedents of McCarthyism." Master's thesis, Washington State University, 1974. Young Republicans, including William Allen White, formed this club in response to the Populist movement of the 1890s.

Jernigan, E. Jay. William Allen White. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. A brief guide to White's literary works.

Johnson, Walter, editor. Selected Letters of William Allen White, 1899-1943. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1947.

__________. William Allen White's America. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1947.

Kansas Day Club. Addresses Delivered at the Annual Banquets During the First Ten Years . . . ,1892-1901. Hutchinson, Kans.: W. Y. Morgan, Publisher, 1901. Includes speeches by William Allen White, Henry Allen, Joseph Bristow, and others.

Kennedy, Jean Lange. "William Allen White: A Study of the Interrelationship of Press, Power and Party Politics." Doc. diss., University of Kansas, 1981.

LaForte, Robert Sherman. Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974.

Mahin, Helen Ogden, editor. The Editor and His People: Editorials by William Allen White Selected from the Emporia Gazette. New York: Macmillan, 1924. With introduction and footnotes by William Allen White.

McKee, John D. William Allen White: Maverick on Main Street. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1975.

Pady, Donald S. "GLR Bibliography: William Allen White." Great Lakes Review 5 (Summer 1978): 49-66. Also includes reviews of White's books and obituaries.

Quantic, Diane Dufva. William Allen White. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1993. BSU's Western Writers Series, No. 109.

Resh, Richard W. "A Vision in Emporia: William Allen White's Search for Community." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 10 (Fall 1969): 19-35. Relates White's writings to the Progressive Movement and his hope for "an organic, moral community."

Rich, Everrett. William Allen White, the Man From Emporia. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941.

Seymour, Thaddeus. "A Progressive Partnership: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reform Press--[Jacob A.] Riis, [Lincoln] Steffens, [Ray Stannard] Baker, and [William Allen] White." Doc. diss., University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985.

Trattner, Walter I. "Progressivism on the International Scene: William Allen White and World War I." Midwest Quarterly 3 (Winter 1962): 133-147.

Traylor, Jack Wayne. "William Allen White and His Democracy." Doc. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1978.

Tuttle, William M., Jr. "Aid-to-the-Allies Short-of-War Versus American Intervention, 1940: A Reappraisal of William Allen White's Leadership." Journal of American History 56 (March 1970): 840-858.

Vaughn, Stephen. "William Allen White." Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume twenty-five, American Newspaper Journalists, 1904-1925. 333-349.

White, William Allen, edited by Sally Forman Griffith. The Autobiography of William Allen White. Second Edition. Revised and Abridged. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. First published in New York by Macmillan Co., 1946.

White, William Allen. Forty Years on Main Street. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937. Collection of White's editorial writings in which he discusses life in his hometown, Emporia.

White, William Allen. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me. New York: Macmillan Co., 1918.