Turmoil and Tradition: a Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson

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By Elting E. Morison

Houghton, 1960, 686 pp

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An admirable biography, by a professor of history at M.I.T., of a leading public servant of the old school: District Attorney under Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War under Taft, Governor General of the Philippines under Coolidge, Secretary of State under Hoover, and again Secretary of War under F.D.R.

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