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.

Charles Evans Hughes

5 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Charles Evans Hughes

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

Charles Evans Hughes: Brandegee

When the news of this appointment reached the Capitol, Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, hurried down to that structure across the street…

Charles Evans Hughes: Senate

But effective simplification is instantly overwhelming; and he made his brief announcement, a few days after taking office, that the United…

Charles Evans Hughes: Republican

It is worth while casting a glance at him "smoking his pipe," when other real and false opportunities presented themselves to him; one…

Charles Evans Hughes: Bryan

I should say that Mr. Hughes was Bryan plus the advantages, which Mr. Bryan never enjoyed, of a correct Republican upbringing and a mind…

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