Newton D. Baker: America At War; Based On The Personal Papers Of This Secretary Of War In The World War; His Correspondence With The President And Important Leaders At Home And Abroad; The Confidential Cablegrams Between The War Department And Headquarters In France; The Minutes Of The War Industries Board, And Other First Hand Material Palmer, Frederick Military History

Octavo, two volumes, x, 421pp; x, 449pp. Blue leather, title in gilt on spine, raised bands, decorative gilt on covers. Light rubbing at top of spine, faint foxing to leafends, a very good example. Top edge gilt, uncut edges. Lacking the publisher's rare slipcase. Signed on limitation page by Newton D. Baker and the author, Frederick Palmer, this being number 89 of 996 signed sets. Newton D. Baker (1871-1937) served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland and Secretary of War from 1916-1921. As Secretary during WWI, he presided over the US military participation for the war. He notably selected John J. Pershing to head the American Expeditionary Forces. After leaving government office, he was a principle litigator in the case of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company, which established precedent for the constitutionality of zoning laws. In 1932 he was a candidate for President of the United States, but the convention chose Franklin D. Roosevelt.