"An instantaneous success"
Mirrors of Washington
Anonymous
Octavo. Portraits
| HARDING | It does to our great and near-great |
| WILSON | what the "gentleman with a duster" |
| HUGHES | did to eminent Englishmen in "The |
| HARVEY | Mirrors of Downing Street." It tells |
| HOUSE | painfully plain truths about the personalities |
| HOOVER | of those in whose hands our destinies |
| ROOT | lie or have lain. It is searching in its |
| LODGE | analyses, and contains fourteen discerning, |
| BORAH | piercing, sometimes satirical, always |
| KNOX | brilliant, character studies. "And," says the |
| PENROSE | N.Y. Eve. Post, "it contains |
| LANSING | indiscretions delicious enough to satisfy |
| BARUCH | the most exacting." 14 portraits and |
| JOHNSON | 14 amusing caricatures by Cesare. |
Chicago Daily News: "We recommend it because it gives a startling and clear picture of Washington's fourteen great political figures—an unusual picture, quite different from anything we have had thus far in American critical writing. A chuckling exposé of the good and bad in American politics ... succinct word pictures, penetrating anecdotes ... not vicious ... gently, with a charmingly unobtrusive sapiency, the mysterious pen has traced the ludicrous outlines of the nation's anointed.... The book should be read by all hands and all parties. It is not partisan ... the sort of education which may be acquired once in a lifetime."
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