Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of
adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan
series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs's
decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal
great-grandfather of this volume's editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of
correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home
includes hundreds of items-letters, photographs, telegrams,
postcards, and illustrations-spanning from 1903 to 1945. Since
Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, the material
documents a lifelong friendship that had begun in the 1890s, when
the two men met in military school. In these letters, Burroughs and
Weston discuss their experiences of family, work, war, disease and
health, sports, and new technology over a period spanning two world
wars, the Great Depression, and widespread political change. Their
exchanges provide a window into the personal writings of the
legendary creator of Tarzan and reveal Burroughs's ideas about
race, nation, and what it meant to be a man in
early-twentieth-century America.The Burroughs-Weston letters trace
a fascinating personal and business relationship that evolved as
the two men and their wives embarked on joint capital ventures,
traveled frequently, and navigated the difficult waters of
child-rearing, divorce, and aging. Brother Men includes
never-before-published images, annotations, and a critical
introduction in which Cohen explores the significance of the
sustained, emotional male friendship evident in the letters. Rich
with insights related to visual culture and media technologies,
consumerism, the history of the family, the history of authorship
and readership, and the development of the West, these letters make
it clear that Tarzan was only one small part of Edgar Rice
Burroughs's broad engagement with modern culture.
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