R. Alton Lee brings to life Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), a writer-publisher-entrepreneur who was one of America's most significant publishers and editorialists of the twentieth century, if not all time.
R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).