Dreams and Reality
Hamilton Holt published the book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves in 1906, but first they were published in his newspaper The New York Independent in 1900, which newspaper was well-known with its reformism. He strived for showing what was common between all people in the world and in how different ways they pursued their dreams. In the introduction to the book, written by Edwin E. Slosson, the author describes the efforts to the books to be written in a new way for the new audience and he writes that it is time for “the ...