Beveridge and the Progressive Era by Claude G. Bowers

Houghton Mifflin Company; Boston (The Riverside Press); 1932

First Edition.

Author Claude G. Bowers  (1878-1958) was an American politician and served as Ambassador to Spain and Ambassador to Chile.

The book is an 8vo size blue buckram hardcover with a facsimile signature of the subject, Albert J. Beveridge on the front cover in gold gilt; it is 610 pages including index, with illustrations, black and white plates including frontispiece. 

Contents include: 

• Boyhood
• DePauw Days
• At the Bar
• Springtime in Indianapolis
• Prophet of Imperialism
• The Triumph of Youth
• Imperialism
• In the Philippines
• Peak and Abyss
• Fighting for Imperialism
• An Imperialist in Russia
• Personality and Friendships
• Drama and Melodrama
• Rooseveltian Days
• Insurgency and Revolution
• War and Politics
• The Ivory Tower.

The subject of the book, Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927,) was a United States Senator from Indiana and a leader of the Progressive Era (1890s through 1920s.)  He was also an author of political biographies.

There is some wear to covers including bumping. the edges of the spine are chipped and worn.  There is some tanning to blank endpapers, but little tanning to pages.