The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Second printing. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his stamp. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Boards bowed, top page ridge lightly foxed. 1921 Hard Cover. xxiii, 461 pp. A Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography by the long-time editor of Ladies Home Journal who coined the term 'living room'. Dutch-born American editor, writer, and philanthropist Edward Bok served as editor of the Ladies' Home Journal from 1889 to 1919. His innovations contributed to the Journal's outstanding success and revolutionized the women's magazine field. Edward William Bok was born in Den Helder, Netherlands, on October 9, 1863.