Portraits_ +HARDING+ It does to our great and near-great +WILSON+ what the "gentleman with a duster" +HUGHES+ did to eminent Englishmen in "The +HARVEY+ Mirrors of Downing Street." It tells +HOUSE+ painfully plain truths about the personalities +HOOVER+ of those in whose hands our +ROOT+ destinies lie or have lain.

It is searching +LODGE+ in its analyses, and contains fourteen +BORAH+ discerning, piercing, sometimes +KNOX+ satirical, always brilliant, character +PENROSE+ studies.

"And," says the _N.Y.

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+LANSING+ Post_, "it contains indiscretions delicious +BARUCH+ enough to satisfy the most +JOHNSON+ exacting." 14 portraits and 14 amusing caricatures by Cesare.
_Chicago Daily News_: "We recommend it because it gives a startling and clear picture of Washington's fourteen great political figures--an unusual picture, quite different from anything we have had thus far in American critical writing.

A chuckling expose of the good and bad in American politics ...