This new edition, edited to eliminate repetitions and digressions, features an introduction by Sally Foreman Griffith, author of a recent biography of White.

This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until ...

"The rise of a capitalist and growth of a Kansas town from the Civil War to the end of World War I." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

Tells how to obtain and hold on to power unencumbered by ethical considerations, and includes modern commentary