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The Clarion
by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
£24.28£17.00
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 417, [2] pages. Frontispiece w/original tissue; illustrated. Straight red boards with gilt title lettering to cover and spine. About near fine; gift inscription and Christmas sticker on the ffep and the back cover has a discolored area. Adams was an American author who became a crusader for improved governmental oversight of public issues like patent medicines. He is credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. "The Clarion" is set within a newspaper intent on printing the truth of a suppressed disease epidemic and failing treatment, with a good dose of romance. "(Adams) tapped his muckraking experiences for his 1914 novel, Clarion, which gave a version of his fight against patent medicine evils. ... Clarion caused great controversy by portraying newspapers as prostituting themselves for business. Many publications were so offended that they refused to advertise the book and many stores wouldn’t sell it." A fictional work revealing much of real history. ; 8vo .
Synopsis
Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) was an American author, born in Dunkirk, New York. He served as a reporter for the New York Sun before joining McClure's Magazine, where he became a crusader for improved governmental oversight of public issues like patent medicines. He is credited with influencing the passage of the first Pure Food and Drugs Act. His books include Revelry (1926), The Great American Fraud (1906), The Harvey Girls (1942), Grandfather Stories (1955), and Tenderloin (1959).
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8970
- Title
- The Clarion
- Author
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Fiction - Adventure -, Fiction - Newspaper, Fiction - Adventure -, Muckraking, Pure Food and Drug Act, Newspaper Crusaders -, Newspaper History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Film, Radio, Theater, Music;
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Lake Elsinore, California
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- Gilt
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