Table of Contents |
| Preface | |
| The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Lusitania Anniversary 1917 / Frank H. Simonds | 3 |
| Vae Victis! and War Has Its Compensations 1918 / Henry Watterson | 8 |
| Law and the Jungle 1920 / Harvey E. Newbranch | 16 |
| The Unknown Soldier 1922 / Frank M. O'Brien | 21 |
| To an Anxious Friend 1923 / William Allen White | 24 |
| Who Made Coolidge? 1924 / Frank Buxton | 26 |
| The Plight of the South 1925 / Robert Lathan | 29 |
| The House of a Hundred Sorrows 1926 / Edward M. Kingsbury | 31 |
| We Submit 1927 / F. Lauriston Bullard | 33 |
| Our Tom 1928 / Grover Cleveland Hall | 37 |
| An Unspeakable Act of Savagery 1929 / Louis Isaac Jaffe | 39 |
| The Gentleman from Nebraska 1931 / Charles S. Ryckman | 42 |
| Too Much Government 1933 / Henry J. Haskell | 48 |
| Where Is Our Money? 1934 / Edwin P. Chase | 51 |
| Bankrupt 1936 / Felix Morley | 56 |
| Censorship, You - and Us 1936 / George B. Parker | 59 |
| The Opposition 1937 / John W. Owens | 62 |
| Tenancy Problem Is National 1938 / William Wesley Waymack | 68 |
| My Country 'Tis of Thee . . . 1939 / Ronald G. Callvert | 72 |
| Europe's Emperor 1940 / Bart Howard | 75 |
| Toward Totalitarianism 1941 / Reuben Maury | 78 |
| The Urgent Need of Unity 1942 / Geoffrey Parsons | 81 |
| Statesmanship in the Legion 1943 / Forrest W. Seymour | 84 |
| How Germany Fooled the World and That Valley Falls Latin Teacher 1944 / Henry J. Haskell | 87 |
| Relations of Freedoms 1945 / George W. Potter | 93 |
| Go For Broke 1946 / Hodding Carter | 97 |
| Apathetic and Pathetic 1947 / William H. Grimes | 100 |
| We Will Not Be Intimidated 1948 / Virginius Dabney | 104 |
| Imagine, One Billion! 1949 / John H. Crider | 108 |
| Church Unity 1949 / Herbert Elliston | 110 |
| First Things First 1950 / Carl M. Saunders | 113 |
| Government by Treaty: What We Can Do About It 1951 / William H. Fitzpatrick | 117 |
| The Low Estate of Public Morals 1952 / Louis LaCoss | 120 |
| The Quality of Morality 1953 / Vermont C. Royster | 124 |
| Still Wanted: A New Look - 1, 1954 / Don Murray | 127 |
| An Instance of Costly Cause and Effect Which Detroiters Should Weigh Soberly 1955 / Royce Howes | 130 |
| If the Russians Want More Meat . . . 1956 / Lauren K. Soth | 136 |
| What a Price for Peace 1957 / Buford Boone | 138 |
| Reflections in a Hurricane's Eye 1958 / Harry S. Ashmore | 141 |
| A Church, A School - 1959 / Ralph McGill | 144 |
| The Year Virginia Closed the Schools 1960 / Lenoir Chambers | 147 |
| The Pastoral Letter 1961 / William J. Dorvillier | 150 |
| The John Birch Society: An Editorial 1962 / Thomas M. Storke | 152 |
| Perfectly Capable of Closing Ole Miss 1963 / Ira B. Harkey, Jr. | 155 |
| Arrest of Bombing Victim Is Grave Disservice 1964 / Hazel Brannon Smith | 157 |
| Memo to McKinney 1965 / John R. Harrison | 160 |
| The Containment of Ideas 1966 / Robert Lasch | 162 |
| Julian Bond Got Used, Too 1967 / Eugene Patterson | 165 |
| Our "Commitments" Open to Question 1968 / John S. Knight | 168 |
| An Appeal to Reason 1969 / Paul Greenberg | 174 |
| Lyndon Johnson's Presidency 1970 / Philip Geyelin | 177 |
| Do You, Governer Kirk? 1971 / Horance G. Davis, Jr. | 181 |
| Whitewash 1972 / John Strohmeyer | 183 |
| Our $213 Million Gift Horse 1973 / Roger B. Linscott | 185 |
| Mr. Cahill's Colleagues 1974 / F. Gilman Spencer | 188 |
| Where They Square Off and Washington, the Father or an Infamous Traitor? 1975 / John Daniell Maurice | 191 |
| Justice Is Blind - and Gagged 1976 / Philip P. Kerby | 195 |
| Conforte's Influence 1977 / Foster Church | 199 |
| Conforte Influence in Washoe County Is Shocking 1977 / Norman F. Cardoza | 202 |
| Reno's Reputation 1977 / Warren L. Lerude | 205 |
| A Good Decision on Libel 1978 / Meg Greenfield | 208 |
| Solzhenitsyn at Harvard 1979 / Edwin M. Yoder | 211 |
| Chappaquiddick and Credibility 1980 / Robert L. Bartley | 214 |
| The Pornography of Fat 1982 / Jack Rosenthal | 217 |
| Miami Herald, The Shame of Krome 1983 Editorial Board | 220 |
| Moldy Department 1984 / Albert Scardino | 223 |
| We Must Be Crazy 1985 / Richard Aregood | 226 |
| Too Far Too Fast on Abortion 1986 / Jack Fuller | 229 |
| Easter Sunrise on the Border Ends in Trauma 1987 / Jonathan Freedman | 232 |
| An Orange Going Sour 1988 / Jane Healy | 235 |
| Election Board Caves In to a Swindle 1989 / Lois Wille | 239 |
| Bond Issue Is Essential to Protect Chester County's Future and Rampant Development May Doom Chester County's Farm Industry 1990 / Thomas J. Hylton | 243 |
| The Bubbling Caldron 1991 / Ron Casey | 247 |
| Nickels and Dimes 1991 / Joey Kennedy | 250 |
| Handcuffing Money 1991 / Harold Jackson | 253 |
| A Victim No More 1992 / Maria Henson | 256 |
| Afterword | 261 |