... the rigorous standards he had laid out for himself. As later observer would note - playing on Hemingway's popular image as a boxer - "Hemingway himself realized he could no longer defend his title"." (Donaldson 14) Though his later works were in many ways as good as his earlier ones and represented the valuable insights of an older, more measured Hemingway, he could never ... the style requirements of the Kansas City Star and the journalistic integrity they insisted upon. The Kansas City Star was at the time a paper that held their writers to a high standard and expected a very specific...

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