E. Haldeman-Julius
E. Haldeman-Julius | |
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Born | July 30, 1889 |
Died | July 31, 1951 | (aged 62)
Occupation(s) | Publisher, writer |
Spouse(s) | Anna Marcet Haldeman Susan Haney |
Children | 3 |
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (July 30, 1889 – July 31, 1951) was a
Biography
Early years
Emanuel Julius was born July 30, 1889, in
As a boy, Emanuel read voraciously. Literature and pamphlets produced by the socialists were inexpensive; Julius read them and was convinced by their arguments.[3] As he put it in 1913, "Only four years ago, I was a factory hand — slaving away in a textile mill in Philadelphia. I came upon the philosophy of Socialism and it put a new spirit into me. It lifted me out of the depths and pointed the way to something higher. I commenced to crave for expression. I felt that I have something to say. So, I scribbled things down. And, to my surprise, Socialist editors gave me a little encouragement."[4] He joined the Socialist Party before World War I[1] and was the party's 1932 Senatorial candidate for the state of Kansas.[5]
Career
After working for various newspapers, Eventually, millions of copies per year were sold in the late 1920s.
In 1922 they renamed the Appeal as The Haldeman-Julius Weekly (known from 1929 to 1951 as The American Freeman), which became the house organ. In 1924 they launched The Haldeman-Julius Monthly[11] (later renamed The Debunker), which had a greater emphasis on Freethought, and in 1932 added The Militant Atheist, among other journals.
The novelist
Riding a freight train out of El Paso, I had my first contact with the Little Blue Books. Another hobo was reading one, and when he finished he gave it to me. The Little Blue Books were a godsend to wandering men and no doubt to many others. Published in Girard, Kansas, by Haldeman-Julius, they were slightly larger than a playing card and had sky-blue paper covers with heavy black print titles. I believe there were something more than three thousand titles in all and they were sold on newsstands for 5 or 10 cents each. Often in the years following, I carried ten or fifteen of them in my pockets, reading when I could. Among the books available were the plays of
Thomas Huxley.[13]
Personal life, death and legacy
The couple had two children: Alice Haldeman-Julius Deloach (1917–1991) and Henry Haldeman-Julius (1919–1990; he later changed his name to Henry Julius Haldeman). They adopted Josephine Haldeman-Julius Roselle (b. 1910). Marcet and Emanuel legally separated in 1933.[14] Marcet died in 1941, and a year later Haldeman-Julius married Susan Haney, an employee.
In June 1951 Haldeman-Julius was found guilty of income tax evasion by a Federal grand jury and sentenced to six months in Federal prison and fined $12,500.[7] The next month he drowned in his swimming pool.[7] His son Henry took over his father's publishing efforts, and the books continued to be sold until the printing house burned down on July 4, 1978.[7]
Haldeman-Julius's papers are held at
Selected works
- "Mark Twain: Radical." International Socialist Review, vol. 11.2 (Aug., 1910), pp. 83–88. Emanuel's first bylined article.[19]
- Dust (with Marcet Haldeman-Julius). New York: Brentano's, 1921.
- Studies in Rationalism. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1925.
- The Militant Agnostic. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1995 [1926].
- My First Twenty-Five Years. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1949.
- My Second Twenty-Five Years. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1949.
- The World of Haldeman-Julius (compiled Albert Mordell). New York: Twayne, 1960.
- Short Works (with Marcet Haldeman-Julius). Topeka: Center for Kansas Studies, Washburn University, 1992.
Footnotes
- ^ a b Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004; pg. 264. (See photograph of David here.)
- ^ Quoted in Julie Herrada, "Emanuel Haldeman-Julius", The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, p. 374.
- ^ Marcet and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society
- ^ Letter to Jack London, June 13, 1913, found here, p. 10.
- ^ J.G. Gabe and C.S. Sullivant, Kansas Votes: National Elections, 1859-1956 (Univ. Kansas, 1957), p. 92.
- ^ These included the New York Evening Call, Milwaukee Leader, Chicago World, Western Comrade (issues online here) and New York Call (Julie Herrada, "Emanuel Haldeman-Julius", The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, p. 374).
- ^ a b c d Haldeman-Julius Historical Notes: Chronology of Important Events
- ^ "In addition, they kept their individual incomes separate and split evenly their common expenses" (Herrada, p. 375).
- ^ Herrada gives 1925 as the date for this.
- article).
- ^ See example cover here.
- ^ For Haldeman-Julius's own correspondence with Jack London, see here, pp. 5-17.
- ^ L’Amour Education of a Wandering Mann (NYC: Bantam, 1989), ch. 2 (paragraphs consolidated).
- ^ Kansas Historical Society; see here.
- ^ Leonard H. Axe Library; see here Archived 2015-09-01 at the Wayback Machine and here Archived 2015-09-01 at the Wayback Machine,
- ^ Richard J. Daley Library, MSHald72; see here Archived 2015-09-28 at the Wayback Machine,
- ^ Lilly Library Manuscript Collections, Haldeman mss. [I], II and III. See here
- ^ Gardner, Tony (2007). "Guide to the Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Books and Larger Books Collection". Online Archive of California. California Digital Library. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- Samuel Clemens)." Julie Herrada, "Emanuel Haldeman-Julius", The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, p. 374.
Further reading
- Bradford, Roderick. Video clip on Haldeman-Julius from the film American Freethought (Council for Secular Humanism, 2013).
- Brown, Melanie Ann. Five-Cent Culture at the "University in Print": Radical Ideology and the Marketplace in E. Haldeman-Julius's Little Blue Books, 1919-1929 (diss., Univ. Minnesota, 2006; see here).
- Burnett, Betty. "Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel." American National Biography (edd. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes). New York: OUP, 1999. Vol. 9.
- Cothran, Andrew. "The Little Blue Book Man and the Big American Parade" (diss., Univ. of Maryland, 1966).
- Davenport, Tim. "The Appeal to Reason: Forerunner of Haldeman-Julius Publications", Big Blue Newsletter no. 3 (2004).
- Fielding, William J. "Prince of Pamphleteers." The Nation, 10 May 1952, pp. 452–453.
- Gaylor, Annie Laurie. "E. Haldeman-Julius" at Freedom from Religion Foundation.
- Gunn, John W. E. Haldeman-Julius: The Man and His Work (LBB no. 678). Girard: 1924.[1]
- Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel. Books by, about, or published by H-J at the Internet Archive.
- Haldeman-Julius, Sue. "An Intimate Look at Emanuel Haldeman-Julius." The Little Balkans Review, vol. 2.2 (Winter 1981–82), pp. 1–19. By his second wife.
- Haldeman-Julius.org, Haldeman-Julius Family Tree.
- Herder, Dale M. "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture." Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 4.4 (Spring 1971), pp. 881–891.
- Herrada, Julie. "Emanuel Haldeman-Julius" in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (ed. Tom Flynn), pp. 374–376.
- Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
- Lee, R. Alton. Publisher for the Masses: Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
- Leinwand, Gerald. 1927: High Tide of the Twenties. NYC: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001. pp. 293–297 (excerpts[permanent dead link]).
- Mordell, Albert. Trailing E. Haldeman-Julius in Philadelphia and Other Places (ed. E. Haldeman-Julius). Girard: Haldeman-Julius, 1949.
- Mordell, Albert. "Culture Salesman from Girard." The Brooklyn Jewish Center Review, vol. 33.12 (Nov. 1951), pp. 5–10.
- Potts, Rolf. "The Henry Ford of Literature." The Believer, vol. 6.7 (Sept. 2008).
- Ryan, William F. "Bertrand Russell and Haldeman-Julius: making readers rational." Russell, nos. 29-32 (1978), pp. 53–64.
- Scott, Mark. "The Little Blue Books in the War on Bigotry and Bunk." Kansas History, vol. 1.3 (Fall 1978), pp. 155–176.
- Victor, Jane. "Emanuel Haldeman-Julius: The Paper Giant" (Pittsburg State Axe Library).
- Wagner, Rob Leicester. "Hollywood Bohemia: The Roots of Progressive Politics in Rob Wagner's Script." Santa Maria, CA: Janaway Publishing, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-59641-369-6)
- White, Kevin. The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America. NYC: New York Univ. Press, 1993.
- Whitehead, Fred and Verle Muhrer (edd.). Freethought on the American Frontier. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1992.
External links
- Works by E. Haldeman-Julius at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about E. Haldeman-Julius at Internet Archive
- Finding aid to the E. Julius-Haldeman pocket books at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
- Little Blue Books Bibliography, by Jake Gibbs
- Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Book" Collection at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
- Marceton a number of works and wrote her eulogy in 1941.