Edgar Ansel Mowrer was born on 8 March 1892 in Bloomington, Illinois, to Rufus and Nell Scott Mowrer. He was the younger brother of Paul Scott Mowrer, the first Pulitzer Prize winner for foreign correspondence. As Edgar recalled the relationship, "Until I was about ten, the most influential person in my life was unquestionably my brother Paul. He embodied all that seemed most desirable." The younger Mowrer had such regard for his brother that he, too, became a prizewinning foreign correspondent. Despite the four years and eight months that separated them, Paul Mowrer occasionally permitted Edgar to join in with the older boys for rough-and-tumble games of cowboys and Indians, with Edgar, long blond curls draped over his shoulders, playing a Texas steer. That role required allowing himself to be "lassoed and thrown to the ground while running at full gallop." "Yet," Edgar later recalled, "I so relished the society...