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.

Boies Penrose

3 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Boies Penrose

THE most striking victim of the American propensity for exaggeration is the senior Senator from Pennsylvania, Boies Penrose. He has a…

Boies Penrose: Senate

This temperamental characteristic was illustrated by an episode in the Senate chamber not long ago. Penrose, entering, found his chair…

Boies Penrose: Party

He had an abiding hatred for Theodore Roosevelt when he was in the White House, but he supported him loyally so long as he was the leader…

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