R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).

"R. Alton Lee has done Kansas and American literature a great service with a well-written, thorough biography of a man whose story should be more widely known."-Fred Whitehead, Kansas History "Lee’s primary scholarly contribution lies in bringing this remarkable and largely overlooked publishing history to our attention. Haldeman- Julius made Girard, Kansas, into an important and distinctive center of American publishing."-James J. Connolly, Middle West Review "Lee has called out for Haldeman-Julius's recognition, preserving his memory in both narrative detail and an easily referenced guide. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius's legacy should not be lost to history; Lee's biography is a valuable tribute to assure this does not occur."-Brianna Panzica, Publishing Research Quarterly "Lee's work shines a light on a little-known yet prolific radical American publisher whose career flourished in the first half of the twentieth century in the unlikeliest of places."-Landry Brewer, Chronicles of Oklahoma “Emanuel Haldeman-Julius was acquainted with an extraordinary number of important American writers and activists, and his life offers an interesting window into the world of early twentieth-century radical politics and publishing. . . . This book makes America during that period, at least on the socialist end of the political spectrum, seem like a small village.”-Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of “Ramparts” Magazine Changed America

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Odessa to Fin de Siecle Philadelphia 1. Forces That Shaped Him2. The Beckoning World3. Girard, Kansas4. Little Blue Books5. A Cornucopia of Books and Events6. The Great Depression7. ResurrectionConclusionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).

"R. Alton Lee has done Kansas and American literature a great service with a well-written, thorough biography of a man whose story should be more widely known."-Fred Whitehead, Kansas History "Lee’s primary scholarly contribution lies in bringing this remarkable and largely overlooked publishing history to our attention. Haldeman- Julius made Girard, Kansas, into an important and distinctive center of American publishing."-James J. Connolly, Middle West Review "Lee has called out for Haldeman-Julius's recognition, preserving his memory in both narrative detail and an easily referenced guide. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius's legacy should not be lost to history; Lee's biography is a valuable tribute to assure this does not occur."-Brianna Panzica, Publishing Research Quarterly "Lee's work shines a light on a little-known yet prolific radical American publisher whose career flourished in the first half of the twentieth century in the unlikeliest of places."-Landry Brewer, Chronicles of Oklahoma “Emanuel Haldeman-Julius was acquainted with an extraordinary number of important American writers and activists, and his life offers an interesting window into the world of early twentieth-century radical politics and publishing. . . . This book makes America during that period, at least on the socialist end of the political spectrum, seem like a small village.”-Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of “Ramparts” Magazine Changed America

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Odessa to Fin de Siecle Philadelphia 1. Forces That Shaped Him2. The Beckoning World3. Girard, Kansas4. Little Blue Books5. A Cornucopia of Books and Events6. The Great Depression7. ResurrectionConclusionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).

"R. Alton Lee has done Kansas and American literature a great service with a well-written, thorough biography of a man whose story should be more widely known."-Fred Whitehead, Kansas History "Lee’s primary scholarly contribution lies in bringing this remarkable and largely overlooked publishing history to our attention. Haldeman- Julius made Girard, Kansas, into an important and distinctive center of American publishing."-James J. Connolly, Middle West Review "Lee has called out for Haldeman-Julius's recognition, preserving his memory in both narrative detail and an easily referenced guide. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius's legacy should not be lost to history; Lee's biography is a valuable tribute to assure this does not occur."-Brianna Panzica, Publishing Research Quarterly "Lee's work shines a light on a little-known yet prolific radical American publisher whose career flourished in the first half of the twentieth century in the unlikeliest of places."-Landry Brewer, Chronicles of Oklahoma “Emanuel Haldeman-Julius was acquainted with an extraordinary number of important American writers and activists, and his life offers an interesting window into the world of early twentieth-century radical politics and publishing. . . . This book makes America during that period, at least on the socialist end of the political spectrum, seem like a small village.”-Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of “Ramparts” Magazine Changed America

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Odessa to Fin de Siecle Philadelphia 1. Forces That Shaped Him2. The Beckoning World3. Girard, Kansas4. Little Blue Books5. A Cornucopia of Books and Events6. The Great Depression7. ResurrectionConclusionsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex