Author: HICHBORN, FRANKLIN
Title: The System As Uncovered By the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
Description: San Francisco, CA: Franklin Hichborn / Press of James H. Barry Company, 1915. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Thereis somel ground-in dirt and spotting to the covers of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. " In the preface to his latest book, "The System," he says; "It is my purpose-as far as it lies in my power--to keep the cover off." In that phrase lies the temper of his service. Dispassionate as a recording angel, keen as a detective hero, he does not need to muckrake to content to let the logic of his facts bring their own unsparing conclusions. While the traditional 'machine' of his generation was still dominant in California, he saw that it was not so important to know what was done as how it was done: so he merely turned the clock around, took out the back and showed the voter how the machine worked. In other words, for the last six years he has devoted himself to telling, without fear or malice, the record of every man in the Legislature, on every important measure; to tracing the influences of special privilege through lobby and hall; to laying bare the hidden and interwoven roots which produce corruption." And Collier's Weekly, equally famous as a national periodical, added; "Roosevelt's speech, in which he made famous the phrase, "the strenuous life,' was delivered at Chicago in 1899." Santa Clara County Pioneer biographies). Very Good+ .
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Title: The System As Uncovered By the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
Description: San Francisco, CA: Franklin Hichborn / Press of James H. Barry Company, 1915. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. Thereis somel ground-in dirt and spotting to the covers of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. " In the preface to his latest book, "The System," he says; "It is my purpose-as far as it lies in my power--to keep the cover off." In that phrase lies the temper of his service. Dispassionate as a recording angel, keen as a detective hero, he does not need to muckrake to content to let the logic of his facts bring their own unsparing conclusions. While the traditional 'machine' of his generation was still dominant in California, he saw that it was not so important to know what was done as how it was done: so he merely turned the clock around, took out the back and showed the voter how the machine worked. In other words, for the last six years he has devoted himself to telling, without fear or malice, the record of every man in the Legislature, on every important measure; to tracing the influences of special privilege through lobby and hall; to laying bare the hidden and interwoven roots which produce corruption." And Collier's Weekly, equally famous as a national periodical, added; "Roosevelt's speech, in which he made famous the phrase, "the strenuous life,' was delivered at Chicago in 1899." Santa Clara County Pioneer biographies). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Californiana Franklin Hichborn San Francisco, CA Graft Politics Californiana
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 38903
- Book number: 38903
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