Charles Leroy Edson collection [papers], [not before 1913]-1951 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Abstract:Correspondence and writings, mostly pertaining to his anti-establishment political and social views. The writings contain observations of Kansas & Topeka, Kan.; critical comments about the Republican Party, Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Charles Sheldon, England, & the Episcopal Church; satire; a revisionist history of Kansas; and social, historical, & political commentaries. Other subjects include journalism, a revisionist history of Kansas with an emphasis on town building, the antipathy between capital and agriculture, a history of the attempts to move the Missouri capital for land speculation purposes, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, human nature, religion, economics, American culture, nationalism, and C.L. Edson's experiences as a staff member of the Federal Writers' Project working on the Kansas volume of the American Guide series. Correspondents include H.L. Mencken and Walter Winchell