Samuel V. Kennedy offers the first definitive work on the magazine
muckraker who became a biographer, novelist, historian, and master
storyteller -- Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958).
An upstate New Yorker who graduated from Hamilton College, Adams
began his writing career at the legendary New York Sun. He then
moved to magazines where he was a medical writer. As a muckraker,
he exposed the inefficacy of patent medicines for which Americans
spent tens of millions of dollars seeking remedies for everything
from the common cold to cancer.
His muckraking and personal lobbying helped gain passage of the
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which earned him honorary membership
in the American Medical Association. His success led him to an
independent life as a writer for the next half-century.
The book traces the prolific and eclectic writing career of
Adams who wrote more than fifty books and wrote the scripts for the
films, It Happened One Night (1934) and the 1920's sensation,
Flaming Youth. Kennedy offers insight into Adams's relationships
with fellow writers, agents, magazine editors, book publishers, and
reviewers, which he maintained throughout an illustrious career.
Noted for his upstate New York novels and stories, Adams's ability
to adapt to changing times while continuing to attack sham and
hypocrisy mark his successful career.
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