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Heywood Broun


Born
in New York City, The United States
December 07, 1888

Died
December 18, 1936

Genre
Nonfiction, Politics, Sports


Heywood Campbell Broun was an American newspaper columnist and critic, best known for his strong stance against social injustice, and his long-running column "It Seems to Me." Broun worked for the New York Tribune from 1912 to 1921, and the New York World from 1921 to 1928, where his "It Seems to Me" column began. In 1928 he transferred to the New York World-Telegram, where "It Seems to Me" appeared until he moved to the New York Post near the end of his life. Broun was a founder of the American Newspaper Guild, and its first president, from 1933 until his death. Broun regularly used his column to defend the underdog, point out social injustice, and back various labor unions. And in 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for congress on the Socialist t ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 2,137 ratings · 74 reviews · 74 distinct works
The Fifty-First Dragon
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3.52 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1921 — 3 editions
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The Sun Field
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The A.E.F. With General Per...
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1918 — 46 editions
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Seeing Things at Night
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1921 — 77 editions
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Our Army at the Front
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1918 — 68 editions
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Pieces of Hate and Other En...
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1922 — 56 editions
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The Boy Grew Older
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1922 — 46 editions
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A Shepherd's Whisper
2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005
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Anthony Comstock: Roundsman...
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Collected Edition of Heywoo...
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“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”
― Heywood Broun
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“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”
― Heywood Broun, Anthony Comstock: Roundsman Of The Lord
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“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
― Heywood Broun
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