Henry w leary (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Boards scuffed with edgewear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 224 pages. Illustrations. Foreword by David Hinshaw. Election Results. Notes. Sources. DJ is in a plastic cover and has wear, soiling, chips and edge tears. Corners bumped. Henry L. Stoddard was born in New York City, and educated at CCNY. He worked as a journalist in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., before becoming editor and part owner of the New York Evening Mail. He also wrote several monographs about political figures, and a biography of Horace Greeley. The author died after the book had been largely written and the editor addressed the whole manuscript, with the intention to carry out the author's scope and intention. Roosevelt courted publicity aggressively, not simply to boost his ego but also to effect vigorous reform. "Yes-it is true that TR liked the centre of the stage-loved it in fact," wrote the journalist Henry Stoddard [a long-time friend of TR], "but when he sought it he always had something to say or to do that made the stage the appropriate place for him." Presidential Sweepstakes brings you at first hand the whole story of American political conventions and campaigns, includes stories of the 'lost causes' of both parties, such as Teddy Roosevelt's bolt, and the campaigns of Al Smith and Wendell Willkie. During a career which spanned the change in America from an isolated agrarian nations to a highly industrialized power, Stoddard became one of the ablest reporters and analysts of his time. With a master reporter's sixth sense for news and for putting pulse-beat into a story, he offers a ringside seat at the world's greatest show, America's historic party system in action.…