New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1952. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. x, 309, [1] pages. Index. DJ somewhat soiled, small tears/chips to DJ edges. Signed by the author with sentiment on fep. This book is a history of political decay; its purpose is to draw attention to the erosion of the ideal of public responsibility in the federal government since World War II. The author was a reporter and diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Star in the 1930's and into the 1940's and later was the Washington bureau chief and correspondent of the Foreign Policy Association for a decade. Edmund Blair Bolles was a Yale University. At The Washington Star, he covered the White House and the State Department and was a wartime correspondent, based in neutral Stockholm, reporting on the Axis Powers. He wrote for many publications, including The St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Toledo Blade, The New York Times and other newspapers and national magazines, as well as being the president of The American Newspaper Guild. Among his books was ''How to Get Rich in Washington: Rich Man's Division of the Welfare State'' (1952), which Cabell Phillips of The New York Times hailed as ''one of the most convincing and effective recitals of mass corruption to be published in many years.'' Other books he wrote included ''The Big Change in Europe'' (1958), an account of the growth and meaning of the consumer revolution in Western Europe, and ''Tyrant From Illinois,'' a 1951 biography of Joe Cannon, a ruthless House Speaker. More

New York, NY: Foreign Policy Association, Incorporated, 1944. Presumed first edition. first printing. Hardcover. 327, [1, [x] p. Includes: maps, Footnotes. Tables. Index. More

New York, NY: Foreign Policy Association, Incorporated, 1947. Presumed first edition. first printing. Hardcover. 247, [1] p. Includes: maps, Footnotes. Tables. More