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WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924), President. The President of the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916.
12mo (6 7/8 x 4½ in.). 71pp. Two 1917 news-clippings pasted to flyleaf and back paste-down. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt.
INSCRIBED in ink on front flyleaf: "Woodrow Wilson 24 Nov. 1916." President Wilson's essay was excerpted from his Constitutional Government in the United States, written while he was President of Princeton University and published in 1908. "At that time he had no thought that he would occupy the great office of which he wrote..." (Publisher's Note). Wilson observes that "the President can never again be the mere domestic figure he has been throughout so large a part of our history. The nation has risen to the first rank in power and resources...and the office will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it" (pp.63-64).
12mo (6 7/8 x 4½ in.). 71pp. Two 1917 news-clippings pasted to flyleaf and back paste-down. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt.
INSCRIBED in ink on front flyleaf: "Woodrow Wilson 24 Nov. 1916." President Wilson's essay was excerpted from his Constitutional Government in the United States, written while he was President of Princeton University and published in 1908. "At that time he had no thought that he would occupy the great office of which he wrote..." (Publisher's Note). Wilson observes that "the President can never again be the mere domestic figure he has been throughout so large a part of our history. The nation has risen to the first rank in power and resources...and the office will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it" (pp.63-64).