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.

Elihu Root

6 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Elihu Root

ELIHU ROOT might have been so much publicly and has been so little that a moral must hang somewhere upon his public career.

Elihu Root: Wilson

Distrust spoiled the mission to Russia during the war. The Russians distrusted him while he was with them. President Wilson distrusted his…

Elihu Root: Roosevelt

He is always someone else's mouthpiece and publicly he is chiefly remembered as Mr. Roosevelt's mouthpiece. When he came to New York and…

Elihu Root: England

Until that time there had been for us only two nations in the world, the United States and England, the country with which we had fought…

Elihu Root: Lodge

The Senate is a body in which you grow old, ungracefully waiting for dead men's shoes. The infinite capacity for taking pains which…

Elihu Root: Pauncefote

The history of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is interesting and unfamiliar. Attaching Pauncefote's name to the treaty was a delicate act of…

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