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Editor of the "Nation" magazine, Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) was one of the foremost American liberals of the 20th century. He was noted for his moralistic, uncompromising commitment to pacifi...
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A lifelong reformer, one of the five founders of the NAACP, editor over a period of thirty-five years of two liberal publications, the New York Evening Post and the Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard was...
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Oswald Garrison Villard was unquestionably the most energetic, outspoken, and courageous liberal editor in America during the first half of the twentieth century. During his thirty-five-year-long stew...
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In the following review, Bruce praises Villard's biography of John Brown as a thorough and conscientious, if controversial, work.
Mr. Villard's John Brown is a capital example of the tho...
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In the following essay, Humes discusses Villard's commitment to freedom of speech and press in his life and career.
The core of liberalism, historically, has been liberty or freedom. It was in ...
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Critical Essay by Charles Angoff
Angoff, Charles. “Oswald Garrison Villard and The Nation: A Memoir. Antioch Review 23, no. 2 (summer 1963): 232-40.
In the following essay, Angoff relates his o...
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In the following essay, Gronowicz details how Villard used the pages of his newspapers to advance his own fundamental goals, especially that of pacificism.
Oswald Garrison Villard was owner and editor...
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In the following review, MacDonald considers Villard's John Brown to be an important achievement in historical biography.
Of all the men who have held, for some brief space of time, the eye of ...
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In the following review, Lovett examines Villard's Some Newspapers and Newspapermen.
There has been in the last few years a notable increase in the number of books dealing with public opinion i...
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In the following review, Bonn praises The German Phoenix but finds some shortcomings in Villard's analysis.
The German Phoenix is a generous appreciation of the difficulties under which the Ger...
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In the following review, Lerner finds that The Fighting Years provides more insight into Villard's milieu than his personality.
Mr. Villard's book of memoirs [The Fighting Years], compac...
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In the following review, Forsyth finds many shortcomings in Villard's The Disappearing Daily.
This book [The Disappearing Daily] by a life-long journalist and supporter of liberal causes is bet...
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In the following review, Hughes finds The Disappearing Daily to be an interesting and readable account of the demise of the daily newspaper in America.
Because of his long and honorable newspaper care...
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In the following essay, Kirchwey provides a brief history and assessment of Villard's influence on journalism.
Applied to Oswald Garrison Villard, the word “liberal” never carried...
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Oswald Garrison Villard
Oswald Garrison Villard
Critical Review by H. Addington Bruce
