Commercialism and Journalism

Hamilton Holt (August 18, 1872, Brooklyn, New York – April 26, 1951, Woodstock, Connecticut) was an American educator, editor, author and politician. He was an outspoken advocate for reform, prohibition, immigrant rights, and international peace. In 1906 he published a collection of immigrants' life stories as The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves.