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Newton D. Baker: America At War; Based on the personal papers of this Secretary of War in the World War; His Correspondence with the President and important leaders at home and abroad; the confidential cablegrams between the War Department and Headquarters in France; The minutes of the War Industries Board, and other first hand material
by Palmer, Frederick
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Signed limited edition of Newton D. Baker: America At War by Frederick Palmer, with signature from Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker.. Octavo, two volumes, x, 421pp; x, 449pp. Blue leather, title in gilt on spine, raised bands, decorative gilt on covers. Light rubbing at top of spine, faint foxing to leafends, a very good example. Top edge gilt, uncut edges. Lacking the publisher's rare slipcase. Signed on limitation page by Newton D. Baker and the author, Frederick Palmer, this being number 89 of 996 signed sets. Newton D. Baker (1871-1937) served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland and Secretary of War from 1916-1921. As Secretary during WWI, he presided over the US military participation for the war. He notably selected John J. Pershing to head the American Expeditionary Forces. After leaving government office, he was a principle litigator in the case of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company, which established precedent for the constitutionality of zoning laws. In 1932 he was a candidate for President of the United States, but the convention chose Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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- Title
- Newton D. Baker: America At War; Based on the personal papers of this Secretary of War in the World War; His Correspondence with the President and important leaders at home and abroad; the confidential cablegrams between the War Department and Headquarters in France; The minutes of the War Industries Board, and other first hand material
- Author
- Palmer, Frederick
- Illustrator
- Signed limited edition of Newton D. Baker: America At War by Frederick Palmer, with signature from Secretary of War, Newton D. B
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Cleveland Politics, Democratic National Convention, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, W.W.I, world war one, League of Nations
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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