The Landloper

A rich man's son puts on a tramp's clothes to see his own country as the poor see it, and finds a mill town where the water is bad and the company owns the mayor. Holman Day was a Maine newspaperman who filled his books with loggers, drivers and local politicians, and knew precisely how a small city is bought. Sixty plates of paintings, among them trench views by William Orpen and a winter road by...