The Mirrors Of Washington

The Mirrors Of Washington
by Clinton W. Gilbert And John Kirby

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There is something inscrutably ludicrous in the anxiety, bordering upon consternation, that lurks in the elongated and grotesque shadow that George Harvey casts upon Washington. The Republican fathers, who now feel a sense of responsibility, after a lapse of many years, for the future of party and country, do not yet know how to take him. As a campaign asset his value could be expressed in intelligible terms. But as a party liability, or asset,-many a good Republican wishes he knew which,-he remains an enigma. There is not one of the array of elders of either political persuasion who, while laughing at his satirical sword-play, does not watch him covertly out of the corner of the eye, trembling at the potential ruin they consider him capable of accomplishing. -from "George Harvey" CLINTON WALLACE GILBERT (1871-1933) was a Washington correspondent for the New York Evening Post when, in 1921, he published anonymously this survey of the personalities in the nation's capital, including President Woodrow Wilson, his staff, and other prominent and influential political figures of the time. The 1920's equivalent of today's bloggers and pundits, Gilbert is opinionated, aggressive, and incisive in his analysis of the inside machinations he observed as a reporter. With its firsthand perspective, The Mirrors of Washington is not only a unique view on the politics of a fascinating era in modern American history but an unusual document of the development of American journalism in the 20th century.

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As a legislator he had left no mark on legislation. If he had retired from Congress at the end of his term his name would have existed only in the old Congressional directories, like that of a thousand others. As a public speaker he had said nothing that anybody could remember. He had passed through a Great War and left no mark on it. He had shared in a fierce debate upon the peace that followed the war but though you can recall small persons like McCumber and Kellogg and Moses and McCormick in that discussion you do not recall Harding. To be sure he made a speech in that debate which he himself says was a great speech but no newspaper thought fit to publish it because of its quality, or felt impelled to publish it in spite of its quality because it had been made by Harding.

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CLINTON WALLACE GILBERT (1871-1933) was a Washington correspondent for the New York Evening Post when, in 1921, he published anonymously this survey of the personalities in the nation's capital, including President Woodrow Wilson, his staff, and other prominent and influential political figures of the time.

The 1920's equivalent of today's bloggers and pundits, Gilbert is opinionated, aggressive, and incisive in his analysis of the inside machinations he observed as a reporter. With its firsthand perspective, The Mirrors of Washington is not only a unique view on the politics of a fascinating era in modern American history but an unusual document of the development of American journalism in the 20th century.

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