Item #15440 Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy (SIGNED by President Herbert Hoover). Allan Nevins, Herbert Hoover.
Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy (SIGNED by President Herbert Hoover)

Henry White: Thirty Years of American Diplomacy (SIGNED by President Herbert Hoover)

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 1st. Octavo; xxi (ii), 518 pp. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned, some soiling to upper part of boards o/w Very Good. Laid in is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Hoover/The White House/Washington" bearing a card engraved "Mrs. Henry White/Elm Court". The President has written "Hoover/1932" in pencil on ffep. Item #15440

The biography Henry White (1850 – 1927), a prominent American diplomat during the 1890s and 1900s, and one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles. Theodore Roosevelt, who was president during the peak of White's career, described White as "the most useful man in the entire diplomatic service, during my Presidency and for many years before." Colonel House, the chief aide to Woodrow Wilson, called White "the most accomplished diplomatist this country has ever produced."

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