A lifelong reformer, one of the five founders of the NAACP, editor over a period of thirty-five years of two liberal publications, the New York Evening Post and the Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard was also a sailor and a sailing journalist--the founder in 1907 of Yachting magazine and owner from 1918 to 1935 of the Nautical Gazette. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1872, he died in 1949 after spending his life defending and advancing his liberal beliefs, some of them inherited from his abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison. His father, Henry Villard, was a newspaper publisher and one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad. His fortune allowed Oswald Garrison Villard to pursue his interests with relative security, but the breadth of his zeal would have been impressive under any circumstances. He worked to improve the status of black Americans; he campaigned for the emancipation of women; he fought to keep the...