The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950 - Softcover

Hodgson, Godfrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155553127X ISBN 13: 9781555531270

Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

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From Library Journal:

Stimson has few equals in American history. As Secretary of War on two occasions (1911-13, 1940-45) and Secretary of State (1929-33), Stimson's record is matched only by Timothy Pickering. He was at the seat of events from the "rise to world power" to the enshrinement of the Republic triumphant in 1945. He was intimate, insofar as such a reserved individual could be, with everyone who was anyone, from Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman. Yet despite his achievements and his voluminous papers, this work is only the second attempt at a personal assessment since Elting E. Morison's "official" biography ( Turmoil and Tradition, LJ 9/15/60). But if this new biography fills in some essential gaps and places Stimson within his historical context, it is also prolix, disapprobationary, and smacks more of journalistic muckraking than historical scholarship.
- J.K. Sweeney, South Da kota State Univ., Brookings
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This elegant, learned biography richly delineates the imperialistic secretary of war under Taft and FDR, governor-general under Coolidge and secretary of state under Hoover. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 155553127X
• ISBN 13: 9781555531270
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404