Woodrow Wilson Life and Letters

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Ray Stannard Baker, 1931-46. A very good set.

. Edition: Potomac Edition., Binding: contemporary full light blue cloth over boards, title in gilt on flat spine and upper board, side edges uncut. , Notes: Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and author. After graduating from the Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), he attended law school at the University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the Chicago News-Record, where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey's Army in 1894.
In 1912 Baker published The Friendly Road, an account of the places he visited and people he met while on a walking tour of the United States. In that year's presidential election Baker supported the presidential candidacy of Woodrow Wilson, which led to a close relationship between the two men, and in 1918 Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation. He was in connection with the future president of Czechoslovak Republic Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in America until May 1918. During peace negotiations, Baker served as Wilson's press secretary at Versailles. He eventually published 15 volumes about Wilson and internationalism, including the six-volume The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1925-1927) with William Edward Dodd, and the 8-volume Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters (1927–1939), the last two volumes of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1940. He served as an adviser on Darryl F. Zanuck's 1944 film Wilson.


, Size: 8vo., , Volume: 7 volumes. , Category: Book History; Book Social Sciences;