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.

Herbert Hoover

6 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Herbert Hoover

One reads in the press daily of Hughes and Hoover, or Mellen and Hoover, or Davis and Hoover, or Wallace and Hoover. If it is a question of…

Herbert Hoover: Harding

A bad particle to ride into fame behind, that word "and," begetter of much oblivion! Who can say what goes after the "and" which follows…

Herbert Hoover: Wilson

The War spoiled life for many men; for Wilson, for Baruch, for Hoover. After its magnificent amplifications of personality, it is hard to…

Herbert Hoover: Republicanism

His hesitation and indecision in the spring of 1920 thus did not spring from doubt of the Republican party's progressiveness. He always…

Herbert Hoover: Penrose

Senator Penrose was chosen as the Republican whose pontifical damnation would most impress Mr. Hoover. The late W. Murray Crane, whom I…

Herbert Hoover: McAdoo

When he was threatening to win the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in spite of the fact that he was not a Democrat, a supporter of…

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