Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947

Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was an editor, journalist and scholar who spent most of his career as the editor and publisher of the Review of Reviews, a digest of progressive thought and political analysis. Shaw's principal interests were the improvement of municipal government, the relationship of business and organized labor, agricultural reform, international affairs, and contemporary politics and economics, topics which he wrote and spoke on frequently.

Editor and historian.

Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was an editor, journalist and scholar who spent most of his career as the editor and publisher of the Review of Reviews, a digest of progressive thought and political analysis. His principal interests were the improvement of municipal government, the relationship of business and organized labor, agricultural reform, international affairs, and contemporary politics and economics. He wrote books and articles on these topics and was active in charitable causes.

Editor, journalist and non-fiction author, Albert Shaw was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1857, the son of Griffin (a physician and merchant) and Susan Fisher Shaw. He received a B.A. from Iowa College in 1879 and an M.A. in 1882, and a Ph. D. in 1884 from Johns Hopkins University. His career began as a staff member of the Grinnell Herald in 1879, then with the Minneapolis Tribune in 1889, he became an editorial writer. Finally, he was the editor of the American edition of the British publication Review of Reviews, 1890-1937. Under his direction the Review of Reviews "became a well-respected and widely circulated periodical and eventually separated from its London edition run by publisher, William T. Stead." Shaw was a recognized authority on such themes as municipal government and municipal reforms and authored ten books of nonfiction and edited three collections of papers including three volumes of the papers and addresses of President Woodrow Wilson, his classmate from Johns Hopkins University.

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