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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." 313 pages, complete. Former owner's bookplate (sepia, black, and white colors with an illustration of a book-reading squirrel sitting on a sign that reads, "This Book is from the Hoard of Carl G. Winter; Read Thoughtfully, Handle Carefully, Return Promptly") tipped in on front free endpaper. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, bumped corners, and a crease on fore-edge of one of last pages. Covers are clean and intact overlal but have bumped corners, a deep scratch mark measuring about 1" on front, two small punctures next to this scratch mark, and light rubbing. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A collection of forty-three addresses that were originally given by Elihu Root (1845-1937), an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from New York, the 38th U.S. Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt, and the 41st U.S. Secretary of State under President William McKinley. He became well-known for his work in international law and diplomacy and was awarded the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize for forwarding the use of arbitration in international disputes. One additional address from another speaker included in this volume. Collected and edited by Robert Bacon and James Brown Scott. Root's addresses span between the years 1894 and 1917. Most of the addresses were originally given in the early 1900s with a few dated in the 1910s. The following are the titles of Root's speeches and the date of each: "The Iroquois and the Struggle for America" (July 7, 1909), "Samuel Kirkland: Founder of Hamilton College" (June 17, 1912), "The Centenary of Hamilton College" (June 17, 1912), "Address as Honorary Chancellor of Union University" (June 10, 1914), "The Home of the Oneidas" (March 14, 1903), "James Schoolcraft Sherman" (February 15, 1913), "Inauguration of President Brown" (November 9, 1911), "The Object and Opportunity of Columbia University" (June 8, 1904), "The Supreme Treasure of Our Country" (October 22, 1915), "The Dutch Founders of New York" (December 7, 1896), "John Hay" (November 11, 1910), "Grover Cleveland" (March 18, 1909), "Chester Alan Arthur" (June 13, 1899), "William Tecumseh Sherman" (May 30, 1903), "The Great Reconciliation" (September 9, 1909), "The Union League Club" (February 6, 1903), "The City of New York" (May 26, 1903), "The Old and the New New York" (May 9, 1903), "Benjamin Franklin" (April 20, 1906), "Reply of M. Jusserand, the French Ambassador" (no date), "Jules Martin Cambon" (November 15, 1902), "The Assassination of President Carnot" (June 26, 1894), "Canada and the United States" (March 31, 1906), "The Builders of Canada" (January 22, 1907), "The Canadian Reciprocity Agreement" (June 21, 1911), "Art and Architecture in America" (January 11, 1905), "Charles Follen McKim" (November 23, 1909), "Francis Davis Millet" (May 10, 1912), "The Place of Cardinal Gibbons" (June 6, 1911), "Joseph G. Cannon" (February 15, 1913), "A Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt" (February 3, 1904), "John Pierpont Morgan" (April 3, 1913), "John Marshall Harlan" (December 16, 1911), "Melville Weston Fuller" (December 10, 1910), "Judge John Davis" (May 16, 1902), "Justice Charles H. Van Brunt" (June 8, 1897), "Business and Politics" (March 23, 1915), "The Preservation of American Ideals" (February 22, 1904), "The Monroe Doctrine" (December 22, 1904), "The Causes of War" (February 26, 1909), "The Effect of Democracy on International Law" (April 26, 1917), and "The Spread of International Law in the Americas" (December 30, 1915).