The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political by Franklin K. Lane

Description

Franklin K. Lane was one of the most affectionately remembered men in Wilson’s cabinet, and in his weekly letters he produced something rarer than a memoir: a running, unguarded diary of life at the centre of the Progressive movement. He describes the struggle over the nation’s resources, the personalities of Washington and its presidents, and his own long fight to keep faith in reform while the old orders pushed back.

Gathered after his sudden death in 1921, the letters have been treasured ever since as American history told in a voice so companionable it reads like conversation over the back fence.

Why readers still come back to it

• A cabinet secretary’s private letters, frank in a way formal memoirs never are.
• Washington between the eras of Roosevelt and the New Deal, caught midchange.
• The human cost of public life, recorded without posturing.

About this DodaBooks edition

This large collection is organised for easy navigation: clean typesetting, a structured table of contents, and chapter break-up that lets you move quickly between years. The correspondence begins the moment your download is ready.