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.

Bernard M. Baruch

7 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Bernard M. Baruch

A CLEVER woman magazine writer once asked Bernard M. Baruch for some information about the peace treaty. The question was not in his…

Bernard M. Baruch: Street--of

After twenty-five years in the jungle of Wall Street, there is--contradictions multiply in his case--much of the child about Mr. Baruch…

Bernard M. Baruch: Wall

Take the miracle of the War Administration. It was not vanity but humility, the kind of humility that would have saved Wilson, that served…

Bernard M. Baruch: Wilson

The belief Mr. Wilson has and a much lesser man, Hiram Johnson, has, that men are thinking exclusively about them personally and not about…

Bernard M. Baruch: Street

The author of the Mirrors of Downing Street describes Lord Northcliffe's mind as "discontinuous." If I had never talked to Lord Northcliffe…

Bernard M. Baruch: Lloyd

Perhaps he is like Lloyd George, who is not logical but achieves his successes through two or three senses which ordinary men have not…

Bernard M. Baruch: Disraeli

There is no fun in being not a wonder but a copy book. And a perfectly logical mind would flirt with Disraeli warily. It would say, "One…

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