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.

Hiram Johnson

3 pages in this part of The Mirrors of Washington.

Hiram Johnson

HIRAM JOHNSON would have enjoyed the French Revolution, if accident had made him radical at that time. He would have been stirred by the…

Hiram Johnson: Francisco

His political life was blank paper when the tumult of popular indignation swept California at the time Francis J. Heney, who was…

Hiram Johnson: Roosevelt

Only the raising of a fund by Senator McCormick and some of the old Progressives, gave him his chance to speak. He hates them and when he…

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