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Autograph; xviii, 360 pages; Contents clean and secure in original red cloth binding with "Phillipine Uncertainty" at spine. Philippine is correctly spelled on title page. Map endpapers, frontispiece and 7 additional photo illustrations. Inscribed By Senator Hawes on the blank verso of the frontispiece: "Washington D.C. / Febry. 10/32 / Dear Corinne: / Best regards / Sincerely your friend / (signed) Harry B. Hawes." Below this, Senator Hawes has written out the reciptient's name in full: "Corinne Robinson." Corinne Roosevelt Robinson [1861-1933] was the younger sister of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President of the United States). Both the author and the recipient of this inscibed copy represent the pinnacle of United States' involvement in matters of Philippine governance and independence. There are two branchs of the large Roosevelt family; members of both branches were very active in the political life of the United States for at least half a century: the Oyster Bay Roosevelts (Corinne's branch) and the Hyde Park Roosevelts -- (e.g., F.D.R.) Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was at the crux of two pairings which brought these frequently antagonistic branches of the Roosevelts together. Her beloved niece, Eleanor, only daughter of Corinne's "other" brother [Eliott Roosevelt 1860-1894] to whom Corinne was especially close -- married Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945, the 32nd and longest-serving President of the United States]. Corinne's eldest son, Theodore Douglas Robinson [1883-1934] was at Harvard together with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, graduating in the class of 1904. In that same year, Theodore Douglas Robinson married his sixth cousin Helen Rebecca Roosevelt, daughter of James "Rosey" Roosevelt Roosevelt [1854-1927 -- the very-much older half brother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt]. Almost all these Roosevelts had life-long significant involvements in Partisan Politics -- remarkably, the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were Republicans, and the Hyde Park Roosevelts were Democrats. Corinne was also a writer from a young age; Edith Wharton, a social peer, gave her critical advice about poetry before Corinne published the first of her six volumes of verse. She also wrote a memoir of her brother Theodore. Corinne Robinson is also reported to have been the first woman to address a national party's convention -- [this was in 1920, speaking before the Republican National Convention seconding the nomination of General Leonard Wood, who ultimately failed to secure the nomination which went to Warren G. Harding]. Besides the Presidency and the office of Governor of New York, one high Federal Cabinet office was passed among a remarkable four men of this circle -- namely, the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy. And this position helps explain the fact that the Philippines and questions about its relations and eventual independence from the United States ran through the lives and careers of all these Roosevelts -- from right after the treaty which settled the Spanish-American War in 1898, awarding the right to buy the Philippines as a U.S. possession -- right up to Philippine Independence in 1946. After he became nationally famous for the charge up San Juan Hill, some historians report that Theodore Roosevelt really hoped that President McKinley would appoint him Governor General of the Philippines. (Failing in this ambition, Roosevelt settled for a successful campaign to be elected Governor of New York). It was potentially a highly complex situation. While most popular attention among Americans concerned with the events of 1898 probably centered around events in Cuba -- in the Philippines, an alliance between U.S. forces and Filipino revolutionaries led by Emilio Aguinaldo had been crucial in securing Spain s defeat. Aguinaldo boldly declared the Philippines to be independent on June 12, 1898. He called a constitutional convention and on January 1, 1899, was named the president of the new Philippine Republic. The United States would no.
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