We do have this October 1903 Ladies Home Journal magazine because of its publication by Edward Bok about The Mother of America.
- Edward Bok, a Duch immigrant who came to the USA at the age of 6, was the editor of The Ladies Home Journal.
- Edward Bok also was the friend of no less than four US Presidents and other leading Statesmen and Authors.
- He was a top journalist and changed quite a lot for this nation. "Go to it, you Dutchman," encouraged President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Edward Bok did just that and found substance in the American dream.
- This October 1903 Ladies Home Journal is quite huge in size, far bigger than nowadays magazines.
- More comparable with the size of a news paper!
- You also can view this as a PDF by clicking here: Cover of the Ladies Home Journal October 1903
Again, for easier reading this article you can view it as PDF by clicking here: The Mother of America Article by Bok October 1903
- With Dutch American Heritage Day nearing on November 16, it is quite appropriate to understand a bit more about this Dutch born immigrant.
- As a matter of fact, the reading world of America has yet to learn the real extent of the Dutch influences which underlie American institutions and have shaped American life... The Mother of America
IV. A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage | excerpt of the book: The Americanization of Edward Bok (1920), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921
XXV. The President and the Boy | excerpt of the book: The Americanitzation of Edward Bok
Did you have any idea about this enormous Dutch influence such as the American Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution of the United States and one, the Declaration, is based almost entirely upon the Declaration of Independence of the United Republic of the Netherlands....
See excerpt below from The Mother of America:
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