The Mirrors of Washington

Fourteen unsparing portraits of the men who ran America in 1921 — Harding, Wilson, Hoover, Lodge — published anonymously, illustrated with Cesare's caricatures, and gossiped about in every capital drawing room.

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Warren Gamaliel Harding

5 pages

Woodrow Wilson

9 pages

George Harvey

7 pages

Charles Evans Hughes

5 pages

Edward M. House

5 pages

Herbert Hoover

6 pages

Henry Cabot Lodge

4 pages

Bernard M. Baruch

7 pages

Elihu Root

6 pages

Hiram Johnson

3 pages

Philander Chase Knox

6 pages

Robert Lansing

6 pages

Boies Penrose

3 pages

William E. Borah

5 pages

Highlights

Warren Gamaliel Harding

EVERY time we elect a new President we learn what a various creature is the Typical American.

George Harvey

THERE is something inscrutably ludicrous in the anxiety, bordering upon consternation, that lurks in the elongated and grotesque…

Charles Evans Hughes

"MAIS resiste-t-on a' la vertu? Les gens quin' eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles," observed Sylvestre Bonnard of the…

Hiram Johnson

HIRAM JOHNSON would have enjoyed the French Revolution, if accident had made him radical at that time. He would have been stirred…

Edward M. House

THE nature of Colonel Edward M. House was fully revealed by a story of his youth, which he told me at Paris in the concluding…

William E. Borah

TAKEN at its best, life, to William E. Borah, is little more than a troublesome pilgrimage to the grave.

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1921Year
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