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Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing

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From: Journalism History
Date: 19990101
Author:Sweeney, Michael S

Kennedy, Samuel V. III. Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing. Syracuse, N.Y.:

Syracuse University Press,1999. 414 pp. $39.95.

"Newspaper reporting is a good job for five years, but after that a man should move along."

That was Samuel Hopkins Adams's advice in a 1945 book review, and he tried to follow it as a young journalist. After a stint as a reporter for the New York Sun in the late nineteenth century, Adams (1871-1958) moved on to an amazingly broad career. He was an investigative reporter for national magazines, a writer of detective fiction, a consumer advocate/ ...

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