{"product_id":"woodrow-wilson-as-i-know-him-joseph-p-tumulty-doubleday-page-1921","title":"Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him, Joseph P. Tumulty, Doubleday Page, 1921","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodrow Wilson As I Know Him, by Joseph P. Tumulty, published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York and Toronto, 1921. Dark navy ribbed cloth over boards. The front is stamped in gilt inside a blind-ruled panel, title over author, with a second blind rule running down the board beside it. The spine carries the title and the author in gilt with the Doubleday, Page imprint at the tail. The rear board is plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page is printed in red and black, the title in red over the author's name, with the publisher's device at center and the date at the foot. Facing it is the frontispiece, a photograph by Edmonston of Washington captioned Mr. Tumulty with the President at the Signing of a Treaty: Wilson seated at a desk with a document and pen, Tumulty standing behind his shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetter than five hundred pages, running past chapter forty three. That chapter is titled Reservations and opens on a cabled message Tumulty received from the President on 25 June 1919. The text runs through the New Jersey governorship, the two campaigns, the neutrality years, the war, Paris, and the fight over the League.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe appendix is the part a historian goes to. It prints the cable traffic between Tumulty at the White House and Wilson in Paris across May and June 1919, each one headed Cablegram and signed off Tumulty or Woodrow Wilson. The President asking what Tumulty believes is vital. Tumulty reporting that every Republican on the new Foreign Relations Committee is against the treaty. Wilson answering at length about the German ships and the Urgent Deficiency Bill. It is the working correspondence of a presidency in trouble, set in type eighteen months after it was sent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the front free endpaper, in pencil, a bookseller's arithmetic: Pub 5.00 ruled off above 1.50 ruled off below. Someone noted what the book had cost new and what they would take for it. Beneath that, in black ink, an ownership signature ending Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Patrick Tumulty was born in Jersey City on 5 May 1879 and died at Olney, Maryland on 9 April 1954. He sat in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1907 to 1910, advised Wilson's run for governor that year, and when Wilson won he was made private secretary. He held the job through Trenton and then through eight years in the White House, until 1921. The title understates it. He was press secretary, public relations manager, political organizer and gatekeeper, and for long stretches he was the man deciding what reached the President.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was never an easy relationship. Tumulty objected to Wilson's marriage to Edith Bolling Galt in December 1915 and the two were never close again. Wilson dismissed him after the 1916 reelection and took him back only after David Lawrence intervened. Then in October 1919, with the Senate treaty fight at its height, Wilson suffered a stroke. Much of the work of the White House fell to Tumulty and to Edith Wilson, who had no use for him. Henry Cabot Lodge had put fourteen reservations to the treaty that September. The Senate refused to ratify it with them or without them on 19 November 1919, and refused again in March 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich is the context for this book. Tumulty published it in 1921, the year the administration ended, while Wilson was alive and broken in a house on S Street. Wilson was furious and shut him out for good. The two men never reconciled, and Tumulty spent the next thirty three years practicing law in Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo this is not a reverent campaign biography written after the fact. It is the account of a man who was in the room, published while it could still cost him, and it cost him. Whatever its bias, and it has one, the documents at the back are the documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page is dated 1921, the year of first publication. The copyright page is not offered here as evidence of a first printing, so the book is sold on what the title page says and nothing more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTitle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWoodrow Wilson As I Know Him\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAuthor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJoseph P. Tumulty, 1879–1954, private secretary to Woodrow Wilson from 1911 to 1921\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDoubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York and Toronto\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1921, as printed on the title page. Not offered as a first printing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eContents\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBetter than five hundred pages in more than forty three chapters, with an appendix printing the 1919 cablegrams between Tumulty in Washington and Wilson in Paris\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePhotographic frontispiece by Edmonston of Washington, captioned Mr. Tumulty with the President at the Signing of a Treaty\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBinding\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher's navy ribbed cloth over boards, front and spine stamped in gilt, title page printed in red and black\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eProvenance\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePencil note on the front free endpaper reading Pub 5.00 over 1.50, and an ink ownership signature ending Thompson\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTo be confirmed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFair to good, a worn reading copy. Cloth rubbed overall with the nap gone along the joints and at the edges, boards showing pale through the weave at the corners and along the bottom edge. Spine frayed at head and tail with cloth loss, gilt still legible. A dark rub or stain near the head of the rear board. Hinges tender. The fore-edge is rough and uneven throughout, which on a book of this period is normally an untrimmed edge as issued rather than damage. Text block sound and complete, pages lightly toned, all legible. No dust jacket. Not restored\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNavy and gilt is the default look for a serious book and this one earns it. The spine still reads across a room, the gilt is intact where it matters, and it shelves with anything. A run of law, history or presidential material absorbs it immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes it worth more than its color is that it is a primary source rather than a book about one. A man who stood behind the desk in the frontispiece wrote it, published it while the President he served was still alive, and printed the cables at the back. Wilson read it and never spoke to him again. That is a story with an edge on it, and it is the kind of thing a dealer can actually tell a customer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt belongs in a study, on a shelf of American political history, in a lawyer's or a historian's office, or anywhere the Versailles fight and the League still get argued about. The condition is honest and so is the price; buy it to read and to keep, not to case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67621625430121,"sku":"VE-1807","price":280.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/01_3907e11d-3d87-4182-8b08-01a18266430d.jpg?v=1791630516","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/woodrow-wilson-as-i-know-him-joseph-p-tumulty-doubleday-page-1921","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}