Brand Whitlock
Brand Whitlock was a Toledo reform mayor who also wrote accomplished realistic fiction about American politics and the criminal justice system. His novel J. Hardin and Son offered a sensitive portrait of a small Midwestern city.
Works
- The Thirteenth DistrictPolitical novel centered on an idealistic politician in industrial America seeking reform
- J. Hardin and Son
- The Turn of the BalanceNovel examining the justice system and its treatment of the poor and disadvantaged
- The Gold Brick
- Forty Years of ItAutobiography of the mayor and political reformer Brand Whitlock in America