A Book of Memories
Indianapolis, IN: Butler University, 1951. Second Printing. 24 cm, 339, illus., boards somewhat worn and soiled, spine lettering & lettering on front board faded, bookplate. Red stains inside front board and flyleaf. Subtitled: Sixty-eight years a Director of Butler University, Forty-nine years President of the Board and Seventy years with the Indianapolis News, Vice-President of the Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc. These memoirs contain two chapters on Benjamin Harrison, who was a personal friend and fraternity brother of the author's. There is also a chapter (with a two-page panoramic photograph of the participants) of the Fairbanks luncheon given by Vice President CharlesFairbanks to President Theodore Roosevelt; a controversy arose in the Methodist Church because cocktails were served at theis luncheon, although not by the Vice President's order. Condition: fair to good.
Keywords: Butler Univrsity, John Atherton, Albert Beveridge, U.S. Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Fairbanks, Benjamin Harrison, James Garfield, Oliver Morton
[Book #50086]
Price: $95.00