The World at Home, Selections from the Writings of Anne O'Hare McCormick (1956)

The World at Home
Selections from the Writings of Anne O'Hare McCormick
Edited by Marion Turner Sheehan
Introduction by James B. Reston
Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright:  1956
First Edition

Anne O'Hare McCormick was a great reporter in a very special sense.  She had vitality, curiosity, intelligence, courage, and all the other qualities a good reporter must have, but she had something more that gave her reporting the dimension of wisdom and prophecy.  This was a rare gift of sympathy for all sorts of people, a sense of the relationships between the event of the day and the history and aspirations of her country, and, above all, a religious conviction which enabled her to see things in the ultimate perspective of life itself.

In other days and on other newspapers these qualities might not have been used to their full capacity, but Anne McCormick worked on a great paper in a time of great news.  She literally made a place for herself on The New York Times by asking in 1921 to submit articles to editors she did not know, and she wrote for The Times from then until her death on May 29, 1954.

Mrs. McCormick wrote primarily about foreign affairs.  Her column on the editorial page of The New York Times was titled "Abroad."  But because she wrote "on top of the news," because she always put the news ahead of her observations, many of her columns have lost the flavor and freshness of the time.

Thus, surprisingly, this is a book not primarily about foreign affairs but about the American scene:  about the early days of the New Deal, about Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she knew well, about America as viewed from abroad, and finally about the South.

Her articles on the South in this volume are among the finest newspaper dispatches of the last century.  They were written over a quarter of a century ago; yet such was her instinct for the durable things of life that they are almost as fresh now as when they were written.

Here is not only an example of human wisdom, but a style which is always clear, and often full of poetry.  Anne McCormick was an extraordinary reporter primarily because she was an extraordinary human being; her writing was true and her criticism kindly because she was true and kindly; her writing was sensitive and full of spirit because Anne, even in the days shortly before her death, had all the spirit of a young and lovely girl; there was poetry in it because, like her mother, she was a poet with a sense of style about everything she did.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  No dust cover.  Spine of the cover is discolored from the sun.  Pages are tanned from age.

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