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Walter H. Page - Publicist

This article presents information on the book "The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913," by Burton J. Hendrick. This book presents a detailed view of Walter H. Page's intellectual preparation for the important role which fell to him in the Great War. Until politics claimed him, Page was first a student and then a journalist, eventually adding to journalism an active interest in education, particularly in the South. At Johns Hopkins, where he was one of the twenty fellows with which the university started, he worked for a time in the Greek seminar under Gildersleeve; then, after a visit to Germany, he lectured on English literature for a few weeks at the State University of North Carolina, presently exchanging that post for a high school appointment at Louisville, Kentucky.