Carl Schurz, Reformer (1829-1906)
by: Claude M. Fuess

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 421 pages. A biography of the crusader against government corruption. Schurz left public service after the Hayes administration, but continued to attack the "spoils system" in the United States government. He also led the New York Civil Service Reform League. He served as editor of the Evening Post from 1881-1885, and as an editorial writer for Harper's Weekly. He remained politically active as a recognized leader in the German American community. Name on front fly leaf. Front hinge of book cracked and frontispiece portrait loose. Rest of volume is solid, clean.