Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Bartley (Robert L.) papers
2005C56  
No online items No online items       Request items ↗
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Access
  • Use
  • Acquisition Information
  • Preferred Citation
  • Biographical Note
  • Scope and Content of Collection

  • Title: Robert L. Bartley papers
    Date (inclusive): 1928-2003
    Collection Number: 2005C56
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 143 manuscript boxes (48.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, writings, and printed matter relating to political and economic conditions in the United States, international relations, international economic conditions, and the publication of the Wall Street Journal.
    Creator: Bartley, Robert L.
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2005.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Robert L. Bartley papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1937, October 12 Born, Marshall, Minnesota
    1959 B.S., Iowa State University
    1962 M.S., University of Wisconsin
    1972-1978 Editorial page editor, Wall Street Journal
    1979-2002 Editor, Wall Street Journal
    1980 Awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing
    1992 Author, The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again
    2003, December 10 Died, New York City

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The papers of Robert L. Bartley document his thirty years successively as editorial page editor, and as overall editor, of the Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 2002. They include correspondence and other material detailing operations of the newspaper, and reportage and editorial commentary on financial, economic, political and military events, nationally and internationally. There is a large volume of material on financial and political scandals, especially relating to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the Watergate affair during the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, and the Whitewater and other affairs of the presidential administration of Bill Clinton. Other large bodies of material deal with supply-side economic policies, the Vietnamese War, the Iraq War, and biological and chemical warfare. The papers were acquired by the Hoover Institution from Edith Bartley in 2005.
    This description reflects the present retention of the papers in folder arrangements made by Bartley. The folders have been grouped into series to accord as well as possible with the nature of the folder titles. Two caveats with respect to these series arrangements should be noted. The first is that the Speeches and Writings series does not contain all writings by Bartley, but merely those in folders with titles referring to a specific speech, conference participation, or article, or an aspect of the preparation of Bartley's book The Seven Fat Years. The Wall Street Journal File contains folders of aggregations of printed copies of articles and editorials from particular years of that publication, mostly unsigned, but many certainly written by Bartley. The Subject File consists of folders of diverse materials with titles indicating a specific topic. Frequently they include both articles or other writings by Bartley on that topic and materials by others on the same topic. The second caveat regarding retention of Bartley's own folder arrangement is that there is a certain incidence of filing, or misfiling, of extraneous material, related dubiously or not at all to the ostensible theme suggested by the folder title.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Journalists
    Economics
    United States -- Politics and government
    United States -- Foreign relations
    Journalism -- United States
    World politics
    United States -- Economic conditions
    Wall Street journal.