Amy’s Reviews > The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis > Status Update

"In retrospect, we can see that at the same time that the nation was glorifying youth and energy, it was gripped with anxiety about depletion and loss. That is what is so poignant about the turn of the century. The national physiognomy resembled Davis's own: an exuberantly self-confident grin, masking weary, troubled eyes."

Already learning something new! RHD was named after a grandfather, Richard Harding, who died just days before he was born -- exactly how his best friend Charles Dana Gibson was named!