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{{Short description|American author and editor (1870–1949)}}
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[[File:Burton J. Hendrick, 1929.jpg|thumb|Hendrick in 1929]]
'''Burton Jesse Hendrick''' (December 8, 1870 – March 23, 1949), born in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], was an American author.  While attending [[Yale University]], Hendrick was editor of both ''The Yale Courant'' and ''[[The Yale Literary Magazine]]''. He received his BA in 1895 and his master's in 1897 from Yale. After completing his degree work, Hendrick became editor of the ''New Haven Morning News''.<ref name="BrennanClarage1999">{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA12|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=12–}}</ref> In 1905, after writing for ''[[The New York Evening Post]]'' and ''[[The New York Sun]]'', Hendrick left newspapers and became a "[[muckraker]]" writing for ''[[McClure's|McClure's Magazine]]''.  His "The Story of Life-Insurance" exposé appeared in ''McClure's'' in 1906. Following his career at  ''McClure's'', Hendrick went to work in 1913 at [[Walter Hines Page]]'s ''[[World's Work]]'' magazine as an associate editor. In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the [[ghostwriter]] of ''[[Ambassador Morgenthau's Story]]'' for [[Henry Morgenthau, Sr.]]

In 1921 he won the [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] for ''The Victory at Sea'', which he co-authored with [[William Sowden Sims]], the 1923 [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]] for ''The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page'', and the 1929 [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]] for ''The Training of an American''.<ref name="BrennanClarage1999"/>

In 1919 Hendrick published the ''Age of Big Business'' by using a series of individual biographies to create an enthusiastic look at the foundation of the corporation in America and the rapid rise of the United States as a world power.  After completing the commissioned biography of [[Andrew Carnegie]],<ref name="Applegate2008">{{cite book|author=Edd Applegate|title=Muckrakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TnFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|date=18 April 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4616-6975-3|pages=75–}}</ref> Hendrick turned to writing group biographies. There is an obvious gap in the later works published by Hendrick between 1940 and 1946, which is explained by his work on a biography on [[Andrew Mellon]], which was commissioned by the Mellon family, but never published.

At the time of his death, Hendrick was working on a biography of [[Louise Whitfield Carnegie]], the wife of Andrew Carnegie.<ref name="Applegate2008"/>

==Books==
*1919 ''[[Ambassador Morgenthau's Story]]''
*1920 ''[[The Victory at Sea]]'' (with [[William Sims]])
*1921 {{cite book |last1=Hendrick |first1=Burton J |title=The age of big business; a chronicle of the captains of industry  |year=1921 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |url=https://archive.org/details/ageofbigbusiness0000hend_e7o5}}
*1923 ''[[Life and Letters of Walter H. Page]]''
*1923 {{cite book |last1=Hendrick. |first1=Burton J |title=The Jews in America |year=1923 |publisher=Doubleday, Page & Company |location=Garden City, NY |url=https://archive.org/details/jewsinamerica00hend_0}}
*1924 {{cite book |last1=Gorgas |first1=Marie D. |last2=Hendrick |first2=Burton J. |title=William Crawford Gorgas: His Life and Work |year=1924 |publisher=Doubleday, Page and Company |location=Garden City, NY |url=https://archive.org/details/gorgas-1924-william-crawford-gorgas}}
*1928 ''[[The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H Page]]''
*1932 ''[[The Life of Andrew Carnegie]]''
*1935 ''[[The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family]]''
*1937 ''[[Bulwark of the Republic, A Biography of the Constitution]]''
*1939 ''[[Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet]]''
*1946 ''[[Lincoln's War Cabinet]]''

==See also==
*''[[The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science]]''
*''[[:s:The Story of Life Insurance|The Story of Life Insurance]]'' – a series of articles published in [[McClure's|''McClure's Magazine'']] in 1906 and compiled into a book during the following year

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* '''To Cast Them in the Heroic Mold' Court Biographers – The Case of Burton Jesse Hendrick'' by Dr. Robert J. Rusnak, Rosary College, River Forest, IL copyright 1996.
* 'Burton Hendrick obituary', New York Times, March 25, 1949.

==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Burton Jesse Hendrick}}
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* [http://manybooks.net/authors/hendrick.html Books by Hendrick at manybooks.net]
* [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1980 Burton Jesse Hendrick Papers (MS 1980).] Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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