The Romance of the Merit System: Forty-Five Years' Reminiscences of the Civil Service

n.p. Privately Printed, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 314 pages. Illus., appendix, index, front bd weak, bds & spine scratched & scuffed, tears at spine. Signed, #986 of limited edition of 1000. Chapter XI (pp. 100-107) discusses "Patriotism of Civil Service Employees in War Crisis, " specifically the Spanish-American War and World War I. The author was a Civil Service success story, rising from messenger boy to liaison officer between the Civil Service Commission and all of the Federal government departments. Condition: fair.

Keywords: Civil Service, Bureaucracy, Merit System, Spanish-Am War, WW1, Signed, Inscribed, Presentation Copy, Limited Edition

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Price: $125.00

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