Burton Jesse Hendrick (December 8, 1870 – March 23, 1949), born in

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, was an American author. While attending

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, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale. After completing his degree work, Hendrick became editor of the New Haven Morning News. In 1905, after writing for ''The New York Evening Post'' and

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, Hendrick left newspapers and became a "

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" writing for

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. His "The Story of Life-Insurance" exposé appeared in McClure's in 1906. Following his career at McClure's, Hendrick went to work in 1913 at

Walter Hines Page Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. He founded the ''State Chronicle'', a newspaper in Rale ...

's '' World's Work'' magazine as an associate editor. In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the

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of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr. In 1921 he won the

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for ''The Victory at Sea'', which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923

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for ''The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page'', and the 1929

for ''The Training of An American''. In 1919 Hendrick published the ''Age of Big Business'' by using a series of individual biographies to create an enthusiastic look at the foundation of the corporation in America and the rapid rise of the United States as a world power. After completing the commissioned biography of

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, Hendrick turned to writing group biographies. There is an obvious gap in the later works published by Hendrick between 1940 and 1946, which is explained by his work on a biography on

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, which was commissioned by the Mellon family, but never published. At the time of his death, Hendrick was working on a biography of

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, the wife of Andrew Carnegie.

Books

*1919 '' Ambassador Morgenthau's Story'' *1920 '' The Victory at Sea'' (with William Sims) *1921 *1923 '' Life and Letters of Walter H Page'' *1923 *1924 *1928 '' The Training Of An American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H Page'' *1932 '' The Life of Andrew Carnegie'' *1935 '' The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family'' *1937 ''

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'' *1939 '' Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet'' *1946 '' Lincoln's War Cabinet''

References

* To Cast Them in the Heroic Mold' Court Biographers – The Case of Burton Jesse Hendrick'' by Dr. Robert J. Rusnak, Rosary College, River Forest, IL copyright 1996. * 'Burton Hendrick obituary', New York Times, March 25, 1949.

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Books by Hendrick at manybooks.net
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Burton Jesse Hendrick Papers (MS 1980).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Hendrick, Burton Jesse 1870 births 1949 deaths American biographers American male biographers Pulitzer Prize for History winners Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography winners Writers from New Haven, Connecticut Progressive Era in the United States

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