Our Political Drama: Conventions, Campaigns, Candidates

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OUR POLITICAL DRAMA: CONVENTIONS, CAMPAIGNS, CANDIDATES, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, illustrated by various editorial cartoonists, hardcover, 1904. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. The pages are age-toned. Top edge is gilt. The bookplate of a prior owner, Henry W. Taft (brother of US President William Howard Taft), is affixed inside the front cover. Front and rear pastedowns are split at gutter, but not pulling away. Not a library book or remainder. The red cloth boards are in good condition (some scratches, spotting, edge wear, bumped spine and corners). 9 ½ x 6 ½, 236 pages, 27 ounces XX [From the preface] Several years ago I published in the Century Magazine three articles, one entitled Humor and Pathos of National Conventions, another, Scenes and Incidents of Presidential Inaugurations, and a third, Early Political Caricature in America. These form the basis of the present volume. In the preparation of them, as well as in many years of almost continuous reading of American political history, I accumulated a considerable mass of personal anecdote and dramatic incident, only part of which could be used in the limited space of magazine publication. It had been gathered from many sources - history, biography, autobiography, diary, memoir, letters and personal recollections. Collected in a single volume, it seemed to me that it might prove not uninteresting reading. While all historical, and, I think, all reasonably authentic, it does not pretend to either the comprehensiveness or the full dignity of history. It is merely the personal and dramatic side of certain events in our political history; a compilation, however imperfect, of what some leading personages in that history have said or done at critical or supreme moments of their careers, what others intimately associated with them at the time have said about them, and what contemporary artists have portrayed in caricature. XX [Wikipedia] Joseph Bucklin Bishop (September 5, 1847 - December 13, 1928), was an American newspaper editor (1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission in Washington, D.C., and Panama (1905-1914), and authorized biographer and close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. Bishop was the author of 13 books and dozens of magazine articles, and he edited the 1920 best-seller, Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children. N° de ref. del artículo 002694

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