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1928 at title page. Stated at copyright page: "Copyright 1928, By The MacMillan Company, Published September, 1928". Deep dark green buckram (cloth) boards, crisply embossed gilt cover and spine titles, slight shelf wear. Front board features blind-stamped border and upright five-point star behind titles. Frontispiece portrait of Grover Cleveland with facsimile signature below: "In his campaigns for election and in his administrations of public offices Grover Cleveland, better than any other great American, exemplified common sense and common honesty in politics and in government." Pages fine, no writing. Bind fine, square. Rare original dust wrapper w/solid green five-pointer at angle, moderate edge wear, rub, flap corners clipped; unclipped 4.50, protected in new clear sleeve. Back panel features available titles in The Modern Readers' Series. Rare sharp first edition in very good original wrapper and an excellent example of heavy book craftsmanship. From Henry Minor foreword: "The history of the Democratic Party is worthy of consideration as a record of the judgments of the American people for much more than half their existence as a nation. Mr. Minor records the party's achievements and failures, merits and faults, what it advocated and opposed, and how and why. As the history of the great body of the party is told in the policies and actions approved by its members, what influenced them, what leaders they chose, Mr. Minor details clearly and fairly these men and their times. Minor says: 'As a story of a battle must show both sides to be in any degree accurate, so must some of Democracy's opponents receive as much attention as some of its champions. Webster, Clay and Calhoun are half the picture of the Jacksonian era. And minor parties require notice as part of the ferment of the voters' minds. No censure in this book is intended for the rank and file of any party. The good sense and honest-mindedness of the average American, even when misled, are plain to see.'" Contents include: Embryonic Parties under Washington; Federalist Disruption under Adams; Democratic Dominance under Jefferson; Democratic Government Fixed by Jefferson; Democratic Development under Madison; Victory and World Recognition under Madison; Democracy Unifies Nation under Monroe; Demmocracy Lays Down Law of Western Hemisphere; Democracy Splits under John Quincy Adams; Triumphat Democracy under Jackson; Jackson Slays the Bank Octopus; Jackson the Progressive Democrat; Van Buren Statesman and Political Strategist; One Month of Whiggism, Forty-Seven of Democracy; Democratic Efficiency under Polk; The Lone Whig Adminstration; Democratic Legalism of Pierce; The Impending Crisis under Buchanan; Democracy's Great Debacle; The Jeffersonian Jacksonian Lincoln; Reconstruction under Johnson and Grant; The Tilden-Hayes Disputed Election; The Tariff. Garfield and Arthur; Honesty in Politics and Government under Cleveland; Between Two Democratic Administrations; Victory and Dissension under Cleveland; The Bryan Era Begins; Democratic Legislation under Roosevelt; Taft - Convention of 1912 - Wilson; The Wilson Era; Democracy Searching for a Leader; Postscript, Bibliography, and an Index." Set up by Brown Brothers Linotype in the United States of America at The Stratford Press. 501 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 020758
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