I want to find hard copy of articles written by Leon Wexelstein and
Leon Wellstone. He was the father of Senator Paul Wellstone, who died
in a plane crash a year ago. Leon Wexelstin wrote for the Boston
Evening Transcript in the 30s and changed his name to Wellstone when
he worked for the USIA in the 50s under Edward R Murrow. Don't need
the American Mercury, I already have that. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
29 Oct 2003 12:41 PST
Leon Wexelstein wrote a book about Brooklyn which is availabe from
several libraries in NY and one in Pennsylvania. Do you have this
already?
His articles are harder to come by, but I'm looking....!
pafalafa-ga
|
Clarification of Question by
eljaystern-ga
on
29 Oct 2003 14:59 PST
I didn't know about the book. Are you sure it's Leon, Paul's dad? It
sounds great. When you're finished, if you tell me which libraries
have what material, I'll see whether I can borrow them.
|
Request for Question Clarification by
umiat-ga
on
29 Oct 2003 18:24 PST
eljaystern,
Other than the one book that was authored by Leon Wexelstein, I have
been unable to locate any other written publications. Are you hoping
to find archived copies of articles from the Boston Evening
Transcript, or did you have information about other articles he might
have written?
If I cannot find any other articles, would you be interested in
sources for the book that he authored as an answer?
I still have some phone calls to make in the morning, but I wanted to
let you know where things stand.
umiat
|
Request for Question Clarification by
umiat-ga
on
29 Oct 2003 22:27 PST
The copies of the book are all non-circulating, as the book was
published in 1925. Therefore, you would be unable to borrow them. I
have searched several old book sellers with no luck.
I have come up with several sources of archived copies of the Boston
Transcript on microfiche, but they are primarily geared toward
obituary records and not the editorials written by Wexelstein.
|
Clarification of Question by
eljaystern-ga
on
30 Oct 2003 06:12 PST
I was hoping to find archived copies of the Boston Evening Transcript
with Leon's byline.
|
Request for Question Clarification by
umiat-ga
on
30 Oct 2003 07:07 PST
I have not been able to unearth any significant number of archived
copies of the Boston Evening Transcript for the years that Leon wrote
for the paper.
Both the Boston Public Library and Tufts University Library have
copies of the 1930 anniversary edition. I also found one copy from
1936. Unfortunately, I cannot "look" inside the paper to see if Leon
Wexelstein even wrote an editorial for those editions.
Leon Wexelstein also wrote a book titled "Building up greater
Brooklyn" in 1925. The book is available in hard copy (though
non-circulating) at the New York City Library and the City University
of New York Library.
New York Public Library - "Building Up Greater Brooklyn", by Leon
Wexelstein, published in 1925. (New York : J.J. Little and Ives Co.)
http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/a?SEARCH=Wexelstein%2C+Leon
The City University of New York has one non-circulating copy in their
Brooklyn Library.
http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:83/F/GIMV455XSLH586DYSNIFSATBUMBJ8EKM3UKB85PLH5A31MYNPC-10613?func=item-global&doc_library=CUN01&doc_number=000363270&year=&volume=&sub_library=BC001
The other copies of the book I have found are on microfiche.
Perhaps another researcher will have better luck finding archived
copies of the Boston Evening Transcript. I have an email out to one
source of the complete archives which highlights only the obituaries
from the paper. I asked them if, by any chance, they had the complete
paper and whether they would be willing to print copies of Leon
Wexelstein's editorials. If I hear anything back I will let you know.
I hope someone else can help!
umiat
|
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
12 Nov 2003 09:41 PST
Hello again.
Leon Wellstone wrote for a USIA publication called "America
Illustrated" It is unlikely that I can find electronic versions of
his articles that I can post here. But if I can dig up reference
information (citations) for his articles, and point you to contacts to
USIA-historians at the successor agency of USIA, would that suffice as
an answer to your question?
pafalafa-ga
|
