Author: HOLLINGSWORTH, J. Rogers
Title: The Whirligig of Politics: The Democracy of Cleveland and Bryan
Description: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 263pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with jacket spine a tad sunned. Handsome first edition of this study -- and an intriguing copy, being that of Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), whose grandfather Adlai E. Stevenson I was Grover Cleveland's vice president. On the front flyleaf, Governor Stevenson pencils "Page 170," and on that page (whose corner used to be folded down) he pencils a checkmark -- the book's sole reference to Vice President Stevenson. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. senator from Illinois (1969-81). .
Keywords: American Literature Presidential
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Title: The Whirligig of Politics: The Democracy of Cleveland and Bryan
Description: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 263pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with jacket spine a tad sunned. Handsome first edition of this study -- and an intriguing copy, being that of Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), whose grandfather Adlai E. Stevenson I was Grover Cleveland's vice president. On the front flyleaf, Governor Stevenson pencils "Page 170," and on that page (whose corner used to be folded down) he pencils a checkmark -- the book's sole reference to Vice President Stevenson. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. senator from Illinois (1969-81). .
Keywords: American Literature Presidential
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51076
- Book number: 51076
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