Essays & Speeches CHARLES G. DAWES 1915 Nobel Peace Prize & US Vice President

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Essays & Speeches CHARLES G. DAWES 1915 Nobel Peace Prize & US Vice President:
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Essays & Speeches CHARLES G. DAWES 1915 Nobel Peace Prize & US Vice President Product DescriptionTITLE: Essays and SpeechesAUTHOR: Dawes, Charles Gates, (1865-1951); with extracts from the journal of Rufus Fearing Dawes, and an address upon the Army of the Potomac by General R.R. Dawes, with portraits.PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company, BostonDATE: 1915 DESCRIPTION: vi, [1], 427 [1] pages frontispiece, portraits, folded tables 23 cm.
NOTES: A fine press collection of significant essays and speeches by the future Vice President under Calvin Coolidge. Three portraits on stiff card with tissue leaf covers. Speeches on economic topics, memorial to his brother and an extract of his father\'s war journal. Charles Gates Dawes(August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the30thVice President of the United States(1925–1929). For his work on theDawes PlanforWorld War Ireparationshe was a winner of theNobel Peace Prizein 1925. Dawes served in the First World War, was theComptroller of the Currency, the first director of theBureau of the Budget, and, in later life, theAmbassador to the United Kingdom.Dawes was the great-great-grandson of theRevolutionary WarfigureWilliam Dawesand the son of Brigadier GeneralRufus Dawes, who commanded the 6th Wisconsin regiment of theIron Brigadefrom 1863 to 1864 during theAmerican Civil War. His brothers wereRufus C. Dawes,Beman Gates Dawes, andHenry May Dawes, all prominent businessmen or politicians. He also had two sisters, Mary Frances Dawes Beach, and Betsey Gates Dawes Hoyt. (Wikipedia)CONDITION: FINE. Fresh and clean with straight corners, full caps and an absence of nicks and marks for a brand new appearance. No inscriptions. Slipcase included, though it\'s always seemed mismatched to the volume enclosed. A possible explanation would be that the original work was shipped in untrimmed leaves + pasteboards, and the fine bindery trimmed to current dimensions.BINDING: Half brown crushed morocco with paneled spine. Gilt top edge, some pages untrimmed. Some pages unopened.
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