George Harvey "A Passionate Patriot"

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage, a full-page inscription: "My Very Dear Will Hays: There is no man in the world whom I'd have rather have read this little book of mine than yourself, and none whose judgment of it I should more highly prize; because there is none who loved George Harvey better or knew him more truly than did you. If in reading these pages you should feel even a touch of the thrill that was mine in writing them, I should be greatly gratified in the knowledge that there has been established a three-fold chain of memory, binding us together in our mutual love for him, binding us anew to him, and binding us all three to that unforgettable past. 'When every morning brought a noble chance, and every chance brought out a noble Knight'. Always faithfully yours, Willis Fletcher Johnson March, 1931". Willis Fletcher Johnson (1857 - March 29, 1931), was an author, lecturer and for twenty years foreign and diplomatic editorial writer for The New York Tribune. Will Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. George Harvey purchased the North American Review in 1899. In 1901 he also purchased Harper's Weekly, which he edited until 1913. He was president of Harper and Company until 1915. Following the election of Warren G. Harding on March 4, 1921, he became the United States ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 until 1923. Book is Near Fine, light soiling to cloth and light shelfwear. Most pages are uncut. Johnson died at the end of the month that he inscribed this copy. Great historical Asociation Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Presentation Copy.