I Would Live it Again Memories of a Vivid Life (Signed)
Julia Benson Foraker
From Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 June 2008
From Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 June 2008
About this Item
[Autographed by author, her card. Julia Benson Foraker presided over the Washington political social scene in the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, 351 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. Wife of Joseph Benson Foraker, governor of Ohio, later U.S. senator. With much firsthand material on both Ohio and national politics, including two chapters on the Brownsville affair, in which President Roosevelt discharged without honor a battalion of negro soldiers for allegedly shooting up the town of Brownsville, Texas. Includes interesting recollections of Mark Hanna's rise to power, the Brownsville incident, and the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. In the infamous Brownsville Affair, black soldiers were accused of terrorizing a Texas town, and President Theodore Roosevelt dismissed the entire battalion. Foraker zealously opposed Roosevelt's actions as unfair, and fought for the soldiers' reinstatement. As a result, Roosevelt campaigned again the Republican Foraker. Seller Inventory # 2408220048
Bibliographic Details
Title: I Would Live it Again Memories of a Vivid ...
Publisher: Harper
Publication Date: 1932
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition.
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