THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING (PT 1) by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A successful young reporter is handed a job as assistant to the incoming consul of a tiny Pacific Island with hopes that he will find some slack time to write his first book. When the new consul suddenly pulls up stakes and leaves the job to the reporter, the young man suddenly finds his hands full, including defending his side of the island from attacks by headhunters.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:33.3 | This is your host, John Hagenhorn. |
| 0:35.2 | Today's story is a long short story, |
| 0:37.2 | and a very enjoyable one, written by Richard Harding Davis. |
| 0:40.9 | The title of the story is The Reporter who Made Himself King. |
| 0:45.0 | Richard Harding Davis was a popular writer of fiction and drama, |
| 0:49.0 | and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, |
| 0:52.0 | the Second Boer War, and the First World War. |
| 0:55.2 | Davis, whose mother, Rebecca Harding Davis, was also a prominent writer in her day, |
| 0:59.3 | made his reputation as a newspaper reporter from May to June of 1889 reporting on the devastation of |
| 1:05.2 | Johnstown, PA following the infamous flood. He also reported on other events |
| 1:10.1 | including the first electrocution of a criminal which was the death of William |
| 1:13.6 | Kemmler in 1890. Davis later became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and was |
| 1:18.8 | one of the world's leading war correspondence at the time of the Second Boer War |
| 1:22.0 | in South Africa. |
| 1:23.0 | As an American, he had the unique opportunity to see the war firsthand from both the |
| 1:27.4 | British and Boer perspectives. |
| 1:29.1 | Davis also worked as a reporter for the New York Herald, The Times, and Scribner's magazine. |
| 1:35.3 | He was popular among the leading writers of his time and was considered the model for illustrator |
| 1:39.2 | Charles Dandy Gibson's Dashing Gibson man, the male equivalent of his famous Gibson girl. |
| 1:45.2 | He has also referenced early in Sinclair Lewis's book, Dodsworth, as the example of an exciting |
| 1:50.0 | adventure-seeking, legitimate hero. |
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