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Mark Sullivan was an American journalist. He was sucessful correspondent of Collier's Weekly, the New York Evening Post, the New York Tribune. His articles were popular due to their sensational character.
Background
Mark was born in Avondale, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Cornelius and Julia Gleason Sullivan, who, although they met and married in America, had emigrated from Ireland at the time of the potato famine. By the time of Sullivan's birth, his father owned a fifty-two-acre farm, on which the family lived modestly but comfortably.
Education
Sullivan entered West Chester Normal School in 1888. While a student he sometimes reported on school affairs for the West Chester Village Record, and upon graduation in 1892 he became a full-time reporter for the Morning Republican in the same town. In 1896 he entered Harvard, financing his education with the profits of the Phoenixville newspaper.
He returned to Harvard Law School in 1900, receiving the LL. B. in 1903.
Career
In November 1893 Sullivan and John Miller purchased the Republican in the nearby town of Phoenixville. There Sullivan worked as reporter, editor, and publisher for the next three years. Although he remained nostalgic about his rural boyhood and his years on small-town newspapers, Sullivan was drawn toward wider horizons. At West Chester Normal School he had heard Russell Conwell, the popular lyceum speaker, give his famous address "Acres of Diamonds. "
Sullivan knew that to get ahead, he would have to improve on the education West Chester Normal School had provided. He secured an appointment to West Point in 1892, but was rejected for heart trouble and poor eyesight.
Sullivan relinquished his interest in the paper shortly after graduation; he then worked briefly for the Philadelphia North American.
At this time Sullivan began to gain considerable notoriety as a journalist. To support himself in law school, he contributed occasional articles to the Boston Transcript. His most noteworthy piece from this period was "The Ills of Pennsylvania, " published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly for October 1901. Sullivan later described it as a "tour de force in malediction" and claimed that it was "the first article of political muckraking. "
Malediction there was aplenty, and the article was in many ways a specimen piece of the muckraking genre. "Corruption" was its keynote; improving civic virtue and protecting government from the "interests" were its prescribed remedies. Provocative in its style, Jeffersonian in its premises, factual although anecdotal in its argument, superficial in its analysis, and moralistic in its conclusions, "The Ills of Pennsylvania" typified Sullivan's views of American society.
In 1904 Edward W. Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, commissioned Sullivan to investigate the patent medicine industry. His most sensational discovery was that Lydia E. Pinkham, whose name appeared on a widely used elixir for women and who was advertised as alive and dispensing medicine and advice from her home in Lynn, Massachussets, had been dead since 1883. This was among the most egregious frauds in an industry filled with what Sullivan called "nests of reeking charlatanry. " This expose led Sullivan to a job in 1905 with McClure's, then the most vigorous of the muckraking journals. In 1906 he moved to Collier's Weekly, where he remained until 1919, serving as editor from 1914 to 1917.
Sullivan's stay at Collier's spanned most of the progressive era, and publisher Robert J. Collier and editor Norman Hapgood brought the magazine into the forefront of the drive for reform. Collier shared Sullivan's sentiments, but Hapgood ardently supported Woodrow Wilson. The resulting controversy provoked Hapgood's resignation in 1912 and brought Sullivan to the editor's chair in 1914.
Although Sullivan left the editorship of Collier's in 1917, he continued to contribute to the magazine, and in 1919 traveled to Paris as its special correspondent at the peace conference. From 1919 to 1923 he was the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, a position he left to join the New York Tribune (later Herald Tribune), for which he wrote a syndicated column until his death. In 1923 Sullivan also began work on Our Times, a popular history, in six volumes, of the United States from 1900 to 1925. Written simply yet colorfully, in the detailed and fast-moving mode that Frederick Lewis Allen also successfully employed, Our Times is a classic piece of descriptive social history. In the 1920's Sullivan rejected Robert La Follette's progressivism, although he did not fully embrace the orthodox Republicanism of Harding and Coolidge.
With the formation of the Progressive party in 1912, Sullivan followed his friend and hero, Theodore Roosevelt, in momentary apostasy from a lifetime of loyalty to the Republican party.
Moreover, the defeat of the Progressives in 1912, and their rapid disintegration in the next two years, left Republican rebels like Sullivan with no political refuge save the regular Republican party, now in conservative hands. Finally, the outbreak of war in Europe left many with no stomach for the further pursuit of domestic reform. Thus, under Sullivan as editor, Collier's, although still influential, moved away from muckraking and emerged as a champion of preparedness and later as a critic of the Wilson administration's war mobilization policies.
During the Hoover presidency, according to journalist William Allen White, "Sullivan was the White House oracle. " After Hoover's defeat in 1932, Sullivan retained his devotion to the former president and to the ideals that Hoover represented.
Views
He condemned the "radical" New Deal as tending dangerously to collectivism, the repression of individual freedom, and even fascism.
In 1945 he criticized the proposed Fair Employment Practices Act because he thought it would lead to "regulation and compulsion hitherto unknown in America. "
In favor of immigration restriction, prohibition, and reduced income taxes, he generally opposed interest-group measures, whether in the form of labor union organization, farm bloc legislation, or the protective tariff.
In his own life, and in the life of his idol Herbert Hoover, Sullivan found confirming proof of that characteristically American thesis. Business corruption, political bossism, New Deal welfare statism, and eventually Soviet Communism were only different forms of threat to the self-reliant individualism that remained Sullivan's first principle. Like so many turn-of-the-century reformers, his social philosophy and his deepest loyalties derived from an irretrievable past. That fact goes far to explain both the appeal and the superficiality of his and other muckrakers' writings, the self-admitted naivety of his social thought, the nostalgic yearning that suffused much of his work, his popularity as a chronicler of the ephemera of the past, the tenuousness of his and many progressives' commitment to reform, and the increasing irrelevance and fearful negativism of his later political commentary.
Personality
He was characterized to have intense individualism and social mobility.
Quotes from others about the person
He was, he said in Education of an American, "a sheer individualist, perhaps a naive one. I believed in self-help, believed that America continued to offer opportunity as abundantly as ever. . "
Connections
On October 31, 1907, he married Marie McMechen Buchanan; they had four children.