Causes And Their Champions

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1926. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The paper label on the spine has noticeable fading. The text pages are clean and bright. The book includes biographical details and causes of the social changes that have changed history, including: Clara Barton and the Red Cross, Phillips Brooks , Frances E. Willard and Temperance, The Rockefellers and Wealth, Samuel Gompers Leading : Labor, Susan B. Anthony and Sufferage, Booker T. Washington and Slavery, and more. "Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (also Anthony, DeWolf and Jr; Bristol, Rhode Island 1864 – December 6, 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American editor and author. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts and had a summer home in Cotuit. He was the son of Bishop Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe. In 1886, he graduated from Lehigh University and in 1887 from Harvard (A. M. , 1888) , where his son later taught law. He served as associate editor of the Youth's Companion from 1888 to 1893. In 1899 he married Fanny Huntington Quincy (1870–1933) , also an essayist and author, who was a sister to Josiah Quincy (1859–1919) and the daughter of Helen Fanny Huntington (1831–1903) & Josiah Phillips Quincy, poet, writer, and publicist. The couple had two sons and one daughter: Quincy Howe (1900-1977) , news analyst and author, Helen Huntington Howe (1905-1975) , monologuist and novelist who married Reginald Allen, and Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967) , Harvard law professor, historian, biographer, civil rights leader." (From Wikipedia); Signed by Author .