Author: Edgar DeWitt Jones
Title: Lords of Speech: Portraits of Fifteen American Orators
Description: Chicago, Willett, Clark & Company, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 256p. A hardcover book in good condition with a like dustjacket. Owner's gift inscription on front endpaper, dated 1940. Underlining in pencil in a couple of chapters, but majority of text is clean, and binding is tight. The jacket is worn and chipped; the spine is wrinkly due to dampstaining. The front flap is price-clipped as well. Still mostly intact. Profiles of American statesmen and preachers, from Patrick Henry to Henry Ward Beecher to William Jennings Bryan. Fair .

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