Wesser Robert (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine with no wear or markings. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Articles in addition to above.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; VG. First Edition. This hardcover book is Fine, being square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is Very Good Plus, with minor shelfwear and miniscule edgewear. Original Price is clipped. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First published in 1967. This Cornell University Press edition 2009. Bibliographical notes. Index. 366 pages. A sharp clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The jacket is torn, front, right, top into the center of the jacket. Previous owners book plate on inside cover.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Corners bumped. Dust jacket has light wear, fading, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated FIrst Published. Clipped DJ in archival cover.

First edition 366pp ex libris (pockets and stamps), d/w w. plastic, excellent, illust.

Condition: good, fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 366, illus., index, fr DJ flap price clipped, corner of fr flyleaf clipped, part of ink notation remains, DJ somewhat soiled & worn. Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) was a statesman, lawyer, and Republican politician from New York. He served as Governor of New York from 1907-1910.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unclipped and unmarked copy with a small edge scratch to DJ edge, protected by the Brodart cover. An attractive copy. Out of print.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xiii 328pp hardback, good in a worn wrapper, rear of wrapper sl grubby.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 396 pages. 5.75x9.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. When Charles Evans Hughes defeated William Randolph Hearst for the governorship of New York in 1906, the New York State Republican Party was split between the remnants of the rural, conservative Platt political machine in Albany and the forces loyal.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - When Charles Evans Hughes defeated William Randolph Hearst for the governorship of New York in 1906, the New York State Republican Party was split between the remnants of the rural, conservative Platt political machine in Albany and the forces loyal to the progressive, energetic President and former New York Governor, Teddy Roosevelt. Although Hughes owed his nomination largely to Roosevelt's desire to weaken conservative influences, the aloof and independent governor's moral idealism and legal experience led him to positions more liberal and unyielding than even Roosevelt could endorse. In this thorough study of Hughes's two terms as governor, Robert F. Wesser depicts the tensions of conservativism and liberalism, corruption and moral indignation, which rent the state government under his administration. Making use of unpublished manuscript collections, both personal and organizational, and other primary sources, Wesser evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Hughes as a political leader and reformer. He shows that despite opposition from his own party, Hughes's governorship produced important reform legislation in three areas: improvement of the machinery and processes of government; extension of the state's regulatory authority over businesses engaged in public services; and expansion of governmental police and welfare functions. These legislative achievements were supplemented by Hughes's relentless dedication to administrative efficiency, which helped shift the focus of New York politics from the legislature and party organization to the office of the governor. But not all Governor Hughes's efforts were successful, and Wesser carefully analyzes his failures as well as his triumphs-including the humiliating defeat at the hands of his own party's bosses in his quest to pass a direct primary voting bill-providing a complete portrait of a significant turning point in the history of New York and of the man who undermined some of the very foundations of the old political order. First published in 1967, Charles Evans Hughes remains an import work of scholarship on the history of New York and of the Progressive Era more broadly.