Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. We intend to deal with that great, unfinished and illogically inspiring story of the American people doing, being and becoming. Catton served initially as a writer, reviewer, and editor. In 1954, Catton accepted the position as founding editor of the new magazine American Heritage. Although the book was not a commercial success, it inspired Catton to quit federal employment to become a full-time author. His experiences as a federal employee prepared him to write his first book, The War Lords Of Washington, during 1948. During 1941, he accepted a position as Director of Information for the War Production Board, and later he had similar jobs in the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior. Writing career Īt the start of World War II, Catton was too old for military service. Oberlin College awarded him an honorary degree in 1956. Catton tried twice to complete his studies, but found himself repeatedly distracted by his newspaper work. From 1926 to 1941, he worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a Scripps-Howard syndicate), for which he wrote editorials and book reviews, as well as serving as a Washington, D.C. ĭuring 1916, Catton began attending Oberlin College, but he quit without completing a degree because of World War I.Īfter serving briefly with the United States Navy during World War I, Catton became a reporter and editor for the newspapers The Cleveland News (as a freelance reporter), the Boston American (1920–1924), and the Cleveland The Plain Dealer (1925). I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. a color and a tone not merely to our village life, but to the concept of life with which we grew up. In his memoir, Waiting for the Morning Train (1972), Catton explained how their stories made a lasting impression upon him: As a boy, Catton first heard the reminiscences of the aged veterans who had fought in the Civil War. His father was a Congregationalist minister, who accepted a teaching position in Benzonia Academy and later became the academy's headmaster. (Patten) Catton, and raised in Benzonia, Michigan. Charles Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan, to George R.
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