Villard and His "Nation".

The article presents information on Oswald Garrison Villard, editor and the owner of the periodical. Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: the high-principled idealism of his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison and the high-principled realism of his railroad-building father, Henry Villard. He never understood the contradictions within the characters of both those stalwart Americans, or in himself. But it was those contradictions which made Villard the great editor that he was and Villard's periodical, the great paper that it was and is.