Word: blurbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novels you are writing in your own heads. I have treated you just as though you were that other self in me who is my best reader. I have given you the fare I like best." The reader expects "joltings"?especially after reading the publisher's blurb, stating that the author has attempted a "new form, not a short story, but raw material." The fact of the matter is that this is a book of short stories and is nothing...
Private monopoly is its chief topic. Says the blurb: " Month by month we shall present some phase of GOVERNMENT BY PRIVATE MONOPLY. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' (Signed) Robert M. La Follette...
Papers-for-People-Who-Think published her " signed story detailing her amazing career," her " first romance," her conviction, and her still more astonishing escape, her wanderings in foreign lands and her recapture in Honduras " through the efforts of the Hearst newspapers." . . . The story will continue, presumes the blurb, "from day to day until the whole startling narrative ends with the clanging of the prison doors behind her in San Quentin prison...
...from the blurb: "Help us, therefore, dear reader, to give this publication the influence which it deserves throughout this Great Nation...
...recorded whether it was as a parallel to the Alger style of title (From Postman to President) that William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson, has written his recollections under the title: From Congress to Cabinet. According to a blurb of The Outlook...