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I sincerely thank my agent, Berenice Hoffman, and my editor, Nancy J. Perlman, who cared about every word of the manuscript, and special thanks to everyone at the University of Pittsburgh Press. The words are very small on the page but my thanks are very great. These are the sorts of people one hopes to encounter in publishing.
I would also like to acknowledge a great spiritual debt to Ida Tarbell and all her friends and relatives, most of whom have gone from the world but who, through their papers, were wonderful company to me over the last several years.
Finally, I honor the New York Public Library, not just the great institution itself, which is truly open to all, but the people there—the librarians who helped me so much, the guards, the people in the cafeteria, and Walter Zervas who “manages,” to the extent that such is possible, the Allen Room, where this book was written.
To the above acknowledgements about the hardback edition I add my sincere thanks to the Authors Guild, particularly Francesco Grisanzio, for making this e-book possible. I also thank Jane Westenfeld of Pelletier Library at Allegheny College for her help in securing new images for this e-book.
All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
All images, including cover image, courtesy of the Ida. M Tarbell Collection, Special Collections, Pelletier Library, and Allegheny College
The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the following sources to reprint excerpts in this book: Charles Cather for material from Uncle Valentine and Other Stories by Willa Cather, copyright © 1973 by Charles Cather; Charles Scribner’s Sons for material from Success Story: The Life and Times of s. S. McClure by Peter Lyon, copyright © 1895 by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
First Edition published 1984 by Seaview/Putnam
Copyright © 1984, 2014 by Kathleen Brady
ISBN: 978-1-5040-1895-1
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