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01-19-2020, 12:31 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
One problem with the biography is that Young was being spoken of as a possible presidential candidate in 1932. The book was looked upon by many as an extended campaign advertisement.
As for Tarbell's feelings about the book, in a letter written to Helen B. Russell on October 10, 1932, Tarbell wrote, "Between you and me it is not a very good book, nowhere as good as it ought to have been or would have been if I could have taken more time and done it under different circumstances. However it is not the last book that will be written on Mr. Young."
Tarbell wrote a letter to Harry Elmer Barnes on July 22, 1932 in which she wrote "Apparently I failed to even suggest to you and Mr. Stolberg [Benjamin Stolberg, reviewer for The Nation] that I had any reason for writing the book other than that of creating a plaster saint. That I can only explain by faulty craftsmanship (I am supposing that you both read the book you see). Should not one thank the critic who makes him feel that he should look to his technique rather than protest that he has done so?"
Barnes responded "Whatever Mr. Stolberg thinks I had not thought of criticizing you for deliberately creating a plaster saint. My main point is that the newer industrial leaders, though more soft-spoken, really make less of a contribution to human welfare than the old pirates you have so justly attacked."
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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05-13-2020, 06:31 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Well, that didn't last very long.
Roger nailed it. It was cooking. Tarbell had been asked to contribute recipies to a cookbook by a Mrs. George Warnsing of Petersburg, Ill. In August of 1928 Tarbell replied that she didn't have any recipe worth sending. "Years ago I was able to make three or four things very well. I could make a pie crust as flaky as any you ever saw and I could make delicious waffles and Scotch Woodcock. These accomplishments were in the nature of parlor tricks."
Later, Tarbell noted "Spurred by your letter, I tried a few weeks ago to make waffles for the family. The results were so tragic that out of respect to me nobody has spoken in my presence of the episode since--a silence which is as funny to me as the waffles were disappointing to them."
Roger, if I can ever find Tarbell's recipe for Scotch Woodcock, I'll send it to Vicki and she can make it for you--or you can make it for her.
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Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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Tough Tarbell Trivia
