George Horace Lorimer was an American journalist and author best known
as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign,
the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million.
He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American
writers like Jack London. Lorimer's Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To
His Son is a timeless collection of Gilded Age aphorisms from a rich
man - a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago to his son, Pierrepont, whom
he 'affectionately' calls 'Piggy.' The writing is subtle and brilliant.