Description
Good condition dust jacket with illustration of man and lady on a park bench. Dust jacket has several creases and chipping at edges and spine. A mylar dust jacket has been added. Very Good+ condition binding is red paper over boards with white lettering on front and spine, dated writing on the front free end paper. Illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Book measures 7.7″ tall x 5.6″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
A deft blending of love and politics distinguishes this book. The author has taken for his hero a New Englander, a crude man of the tannery, who rose to political prominence by his own powers.
Allowing ambition to triumph over all finer sentiments, Jethro Bass stands alone on the tottering eminence of political power. Deserted by the woman who loved him, but who despised the methods he used to gain his power in the state, he allows all that is good to pass out of his life.
Later on changes come, and a new love with them, and not until then does the shrewd, unscrupulous man realize the value of the love of a noble, spirited woman and how unsatisfying is worldly prominence.
It is a sermon on civic righteousness, and a love story with a deep motive.
